"Wesleyan University in Middletown said last week it would be mandating COVID-19 shots."
Posted on 04/19/2021 6:43:46 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Yale University will require students to receive COVID-19 vaccines before returning to campus for the fall semester, the New Haven university announced Monday.
“Although the course of the COVID-19 pandemic over the coming months remains uncertain, vaccination is the strongest tool for preventing transmission of the virus,” university President Peter Salovey and Provost Scott Strobel wrote in a letter to the Yale community. “There is abundant evidence of the vaccines’ effectiveness and growing confidence that vaccines will be widely available by early summer.”
Yale is the second Connecticut college to require coronavirus vaccines when students return in the fall; Wesleyan University in Middletown said last week it would be mandating COVID-19 shots.
Students who plan to study or work on campus at Yale this summer are expected to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as it is available to them.
Officials at Yale said current students could make vaccination appointments in the New Haven area before the spring semester ends or seek an appointment when they return home for summer break. “We understand that a small number of students may not be able to obtain vaccination appointments before they return to campus, and we are making provisions to vaccinate them on arrival,” Salovey and Strobel said.
Students will be allowed to seek medical and religious exemptions from the vaccine, the administrators said.
Yale is also considering whether faculty and staff will be required to be vaccinated to return to campus in the fall. A group including faculty experts in public health is expected to soon make recommendations and a determination will be made by June, the letter said.
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I'm surprised the Ivy's are trying so hard to thin their own herd first.
Just say FU!
Isn’t there a law against forcing people to take vaccines that aren’t FDA approved?
Universities continually inflicting harm. Class action lawsuits would be good.
I would think so! Esp. a vax that has not been tested for years like others are.
Very strange.
Go to Yale, go directly to Yale, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Definitely a form of coercion.
Yep.
I think this is unconscionable and immoral, but that's a different issue.
OSHA laws conflict— allow persons (like professors) to whine that the workplace is “unsafe” if not everyone is vaccinated.
Welcome to the 21st century in America.
Seems like a legal challenge is required
You cannot legal force a Approved For Emergency Use Only vaccine on anyone
"Wesleyan University in Middletown said last week it would be mandating COVID-19 shots."
The universities are teaching students to be good Nanzis and obey, obey, obey...
Right. No one has to go to college if they don’t want to get vaccinated. Actually, they can take online courses and get a degree that way without going on campus. Ivy League is overrated anyway, the only thing valuable about it is the connections it provides you.
Close any college requiring a vaccine for admission.
Why? What is the Covid-19 fatality rate for college age folks?
For them, their age group, more than 99% of cases are either asymptomatic or treatable. They can contribute to herd immunity naturally without a vaccine (that might not protect them anyway).
Gotta depopulate.
https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.org/legal-2
From their link above:
“The law is clear. An experimental vaccine cannot be mandated. We want you to be armed with resources to advocate for yourself and your loved ones. Here is a letter template to utilitize related to your employer or school attempting to mandate the Covid-19 experimental vaccine candidates. Please edit the portion in red, specific to you, and distribute. Send to principals, superintendents, department of education officials, managers, corporate officers, etc. Put everyone on notice! Send on your own or unite with others’ signatures in support of your movement. Informed and united people are truly the greatest threat to tyranny!”
Date: April 12, 2021
To: Whom It May Concern:
Re: Covid-19 Experimental Vaccine Candidates
Any compulsory Covid-19 vaccination requirement is a violation of federal law. I urge you to advise all students that they have the right to refuse or to take any COVID-19 vaccine. Any other action is contrary to federal law.
Covid-19 Vaccines are Experimental.
Covid-19 vaccines are not approved by the FDA. The Covid-19 vaccines are only approved under an Emergency Use Authorization, for investigational use only. Covid-19 vaccines lack requisite studies and are not approved medical treatment. The FDA’s guidance on emergency use authorization of medical products requires the FDA to “ensure that recipients are informed to the extent practicable given the applicable circumstances … That they have the option to accept or refuse the EUA product …”
Title 21, Section 360bbb-3 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the “FD&C Act”) vests the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the permissive authority to grant Emergency Use Authorizations (“EUAs”) providing that appropriate conditions designed to ensure that individuals to whom the product is administered are informed:
1. that the Secretary has authorized the emergency use of the product;
2. of the significant known and potential benefits and risks of such use, and of the extent to which such benefits and risks are unknown; and
3. of the option to accept or refuse administration of the product, of the consequences, if any, of refusing administration of the product, and of the alternatives to the product that are available and of their benefits and risks. 1
The right to avoid the imposition of human experimentation is fundamental, rooted in the Nuremberg Code of 1947, has been ratified by the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, and further codified in the United States Code of Federal Regulations. In addition to the United States regarding itself as bound by these provisions, these principles were adopted by the FDA in its regulations requiring the informed consent of human subjects for medical research. It is unlawful to conduct medical research, even in the case of an emergency, unless steps are taken to secure informed consent of all participants.
The following Emergency Use Authorizations have been issued for Covid-19 vaccinations:
12/11/20 Moderna - FDA issued an EUA for emergency use of the Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for recipients 16 years of age or older.
12/18/20 Pfizer/BioNTech - FDA issued an EUA for emergency use of the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine for recipients 18 years of age or older.
2/27/21 Johnson & Johnson - FDA issued an EUA for emergency use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine (aka Janssen vaccine) for recipients 18 years of age or older.
Each of the above EUAs was issued in conjunction with a similar Fact Sheet from the FDA. For example, the Janssen fact sheet contains the following notice:
“INFORMATION TO PROVIDE TO VACCINE RECIPIENTS/CAREGIVERS”
As the vaccination provider, you must communicate to the recipient or their caregiver, information consistent with the “Fact Sheet for Recipients and Caregivers” (and provide a copy or direct the individual to the website to obtain the Fact Sheet) prior to the individual receiving the Janssen Covid-19 Vaccine, including:
• FDA has authorized the emergency use of the Janssen Covid-19 Vaccine, which is not an FDA approved vaccine.
• The recipient or their caregiver has the option to accept or refuse the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine.
• The significant known and potential risks and benefits of the Janssen Covid-19 Vaccine, and the extent to which such risks and benefits are unknown.
Clearly, any attempt to force anyone to take a Covid-19 vaccine is a violation of federal law and the conditions under which the Covid-19 vaccine has been authorized for use. The law is clear, experimental medical treatment cannot be mandated.
Businesses are not shielded from liability with experimental agents.
Under the 2005 PREP Act enacted by Congress, pharmaceutical companies that manufacture EUA vaccines are shielded from liability related to injuries and damages caused by their experimental agents. However, any employer, public school, or any other entity or person who mandates experimental vaccines on any human being is not protected from liability for any resulting harm. While vaccine manufacturers may be shielded from liability, your institution is not protected, and neither are you.
You are hereby on notice that if you illegally or irresponsibly mandate EUA medical therapies on students, such as the experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidates, I may have no choice but to take legal action, and you may be personally liable for resulting harm.
I urge your institution to comply with the FD&C Act and the terms of the EUA and its accompanying Fact Sheet, and to advise all employees of their right to accept or refuse any Covid-19 vaccine. Any other course of action is contrary to federal law.
Thank you for your time and for protecting the best interest of your students.
Sincerely,
Sign Name Here
If attending Yale or Columbia was as simple as deciding which coffee shop to stop at for a morning cup of joe, you might have a point.
But many of the students have already invested no small amount of time and money at these schools, and for the schools to turn around at this point and impose this kind of a requirement would seem to me some kind of breach of contract.
Even those who haven't started their college education but who have been accepted into the incoming freshmen class might argue that they have turned away other opportunities in planning to attend this fall.
Good post.
The universities are teaching their students to obey instead of think.
These universities have strayed so far from their original mission (to teach students to think for themselves) that the universities might as well shut down and become homeless shelters.
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