The University of Maryland will no longer require students, faculty and staff to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19, the school announced Thursday...
Health officials at the university said the student is isolating at home and that their close contacts are being traced.They attended University Park campus, the college's largest.
The University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, reported its first presumptive case of monkeypox Wednesday in an email sent out to students and employees.
"The staff member has taken all necessary medical steps and is doing well," University Health Center Director Dr. Spyridon Marinopoulos wrote in an email to the campus community
College officials were already bracing for a potential rise in coronavirus cases when students returned to campus after Thanksgiving break. Then the world learned of the omicron variant, with its troubling mutations and a host of unknowns.
My Letter to a Mandate Junkie
To: Dr. Patty Perillo and Dr. Spyridon Marinopoulos UMD
Recently I received as a parent of a new student an email relaying that the University took steps for informing those students of the vaccination requirement for COVID-19. I have reviewed the current track taken by the U.S. CDC as well as volumes of the emerging evidences as to the outcomes of the COVID-19 vaccines. There is little to suggest that the pharmaceutical treatments referred to as the COVID vaccine should be administered to humans at all, let alone mandated as a condition of attendance to an institution of higher learning.
One week after instituting a “sequester-in-place” mandate for student housing, the University of Maryland College Park has lifted the order, citing promising COVID-19 metrics in the aftermath of outbreaks on campus.