Two Maryland colleges say they will require COVID vaccinations this fall
Students, staff and faculty members at Salisbury University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore will be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccination before returning to campus in the fall. The decision was made by the University System of Maryland following a meeting of the USM Board of Regents. "If we examine the data — and there is an extraordinary accumulation of data—we see that the risk of vaccines is very low, whereas the risk of COVID is very high,” USM Chancellor Jay Perman said in a statement. “This mandate was not undertaken lightly. It was based on the recommendation...