Confusing rules, loopholes and legal issues: College vaccination plans are a mess Ben Kesslen and Megan Watkins and Kanwal Syed © Provided by NBC News
When the coronavirus began to spread around the country last year, most colleges and universities shut their doors. And when they began to reopen in the fall, they did so in piecemeal and convoluted ways.
In some cases, students could live in dorms but had to take classes online. Dining halls were reservation-only. Singing was banned. While some schools avoided major outbreaks, others became hot spots.
The introduction of three Covid-19 vaccines in early 2021 seemed to present an exit from these patchwork reopenings, which robbed students of a traditional college experience. But an NBC News analysis of rules across the U.S. found that vaccination requirements for students have proven to be just as complicated as the frenetic fall 2020 semester, if not more so.
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Penn Law’s Lynnewood Shafer debuts ‘Black Excellence: Journeys of Success’ Lynnewood Shafer. (Image: Penn Law News)
The goal of “Black Excellence” is to educate, inspire, and inform the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, and more through the stories and advice of those who currently occupy those ranks. The hypothesis is that no matter how ordinary we think we are, we are each capable of extraordinary results, and “Black Excellence” seeks to model how to achieve those results while being grounded in experience.
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Why NY Officials Can Mandate COVID Vaccines For College Students, Public Schools And Staff If They Want To
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Governor Cuomo announced Monday that New York’s public universities would require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before they return to school this autumn. The move arrived hours before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for 12-to-15-year-olds. Younger kids will likely need to wait until September.
With shots for younger children on the horizon, parents and educators have been asking if vaccines against COVID-19 will be required at all schools including ones for New York’s K-12 students as they are for other diseases. And what about a staff mandate, given that COVID cases are way more common in them than students at New York City’s public schools?