University of Missouri outlines employee COVID vaccine mandate
MU on Thursday outlined how it plans to implement and enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its employees to comply with President Joe Biden's executive order.
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MU on Thursday outlined how it plans to implement and enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its employees to comply with President Joe Biden's executive order.
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The University of Missouri is again requiring masks in classrooms, starting Monday, according to a message to the campus community sent on Thursday from Mark Diedrich and John Middleton with the MU Incident Command Team. "Missouri is working to combat a rise in cases primarily caused by the Delta variant, with most of the cases occurring in unvaccinated individuals," the message reads. "While faculty, staff and student cases remain very low at Mizzou, we will take additional precautions." All students, faculty staff and visitors will be required to wear masks in classrooms and meeting room...
Beginning June 1, the university will change from requiring social distancing and mask-wearing indoors to recommending those measures based on vaccination status.