Nearly 100 Colleges Still Mandate COVID Vaccine, Eliciting Criticism

Nearly 100 universities across the United States continue to mandate COVID vaccinations despite persisting concerns about the side effects and overall effectiveness of the vaccines as well as the ethics of such mandates.

Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Rutgers universities are among the 100 colleges that require COVID vaccine shots for their students to promote campus health, as reported by No College Mandates, a group critical of the requirements.

"There are 97 colleges holding tight to student COVID vaccine mandates for fall," the group posted on X on Aug. 9.

There are 97 colleges holding tight to student COVID vaccine mandates for fall.

A professor at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, described the continuation of COVID vaccine mandates at these colleges as "Insane."

Studies have also indicated that the immunity naturally acquired through infection could be as effective, if not more so, than the vaccine-induced immunity, further questioning the need to mandate COVID vaccine shots.

Scholars Aaron Kheriaty and Gerard Bradley noted in a June 14 Wall Street Journal op-ed that colleges still enforcing vaccine mandates overlook the fact that many students already have infection-induced immunity, which "Studies have suggested is more robust and durable than vaccine immunity."

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