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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges have always had vaccination requirements for communicable diseases. I went back for grad school after time away and they asked for proof of my chicken pox vaccine. I had chicken pox, I had to have a blood titer to prove I didn’t need the vaccine. I did get the meningitis vaccine. I think the covid vaccine will live on at universities.[/quote]

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There's a difference between requirements when a large group of people are living together than just working somewhere.  Colleges have long had stricter vaccine requirements of all sorts to avoid outbreaks that overwhelm their health services.[/quote]

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Many anti-vaxers just refuse to acknowledge the fact that viruses spread in populations that are living together, like at colleges. And the anti-vaxers here love to bray about how vaccines "don't prevent or slow transmission" without addressing the fact that vaccines do reduce the severity of Covid cases. They insist that Covid poses (as one PP here claimed) "zero risk" to young adults who get it. It's the "Covid's only a bad cold" theory. My college student DC knows other students who have had it and yes, they had much more than a cold, and one now seems to have long Covid symptoms. At DC's college, students themselves are all about vaccination and many students choose to mask up indoors in group settings--I've seen it first-hand as recently as two weeks ago on a visit.

They don't see it as being paranoid etc. They don't get all worked up and shrill over vaccines or masks in some circumstances. These college students are more mature and more informed than many a so-called adult posting on DCUM. [/quote]

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