6 top doctors write about the folly of requiring Covid vaccines for college students.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/05/how-college-covid-vaccine-mandates-put-students-in-danger/
More than 520 of America’s 5,300 colleges and universities, approximately 10 percent, have announced students must be fully vaccinated against COVID before they return for fall classes. Among these institutions are the public universities of California and New York, pending full U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of the vaccines. Together, these two systems enroll approximately 1.5 million students.
Other state universities that have enacted vaccine “mandates” include the universities of Michigan and Maryland, as well as Indiana University. Scores of private institutions have also mandated COVID vaccines, including Yale, Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Notre Dame, Emory, Brown, Syracuse, Boston University, and Princeton.
We think that these mandates are unethical, chiefly because they indiscriminately require administering an experimental biological agent in the setting of a clinical investigation to a population that is at greater risk of harm from the drug than from COVID. Our advice to schools that have not yet adopted vaccine mandates is: don’t.
But where participation in the investigational vaccination program is nevertheless required by university policies, there must be sensible, medically sound policies for granting medical exemptions.
Thanks for telling us, BBC. But this is no surprise. You should be investigating why England denied having an increase in cases earlier. Furthermore, the 10-16 fold increased risk of narcolepsy within 6 months will lowball the actual risk–as recent studies show some victims taking much longer than 6 months or a year to be diagnosed….
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I decided to just say briefly what happened yesterday at the NBSB conference call. Every member of the NBSB, with the exception of Iowa’s top public health officer, Patricia Quinlisk, MD, voted in favor of testing anthrax vaccine in children. Kudos to Dr. Quinlisk for making clear that her public health background precluded agreement. Panel…
The tide is turning. The origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains in question. And now the WaPo is supporting a full investigation, below. But don’t expect much from pending investigations by the WHO or a group that has constituted itself as from the Lancet. The Lancet group’s origin investigation is being led by Peter Daszac, PhD, whose…
