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Stanford University is requiring all undergraduate, graduate and professional students to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 this fall, university Provost Persis Drell announced Thursday.
“All students will be asked about their vaccine status prior to their arrival on campus for the fall quarter,” Drell said in an April 22 statement.
In bold font, the statement emphasizes that the university will accommodate people who cannot take the vaccine for “medical or religious reasons” and students can request an exception. If approved, the university said exempted students are required to be regularly tested for COVID-19. The university will put in place other requirements that were not specified in the statement.
The university briefly explained that its decision was based on recommendations from public health officials at the county, state and national levels, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Stanford’s COVID-19 Vaccine Governance Committee, which is tasked with tracking vaccine developments.
“We believe this approach to student vaccination is necessary to support health and safety this fall,” Drell wrote. “Vaccinations are a critical component in our efforts to mitigate risk and protect one another’s health within our student environment.”
As a university, Stanford does not receive its own supply of vaccines. The announcement directs students to a separate university webpage that lists how they can get a vaccine, though it also acknowledges that supplies are limited.
Further details on the policy as well as an update on vaccination for faculty and staff will be announced soon, Drell said.
Also on Thursday, the University of California and California State University systems announced a proposed policy to require students, faculty and staff entering their campuses to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 starting this fall at their universities. The CSU announcement notes that the requirement is contingent on the Food and Drug Administration giving full approval of one or more vaccines and an adequate supply of fully approved vaccines.
Other U.S. universities, including Princeton University, also said this week that they’ll require full vaccination from its students for the upcoming academic year. Princeton students will have to upload their vaccine record to their online student portal, according to the university’s Office of Communications.
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Hi Nancy Lowe,
Thanks for the posting the website. I am not sure if you are aware of the lawsuit in New Mexico challenging a Dona Ana County mandate requiring first responders to receive the COVID-19 shot as a condition of employment. Moreover, there is a lawsuit in both New Mexico and Ohio challenging the state of of emergency. Here is the link to the the website: https://www.nmstandsup.org/litigation
Here is link to an interview from Attorney Ana Garner who filed the lawsuit. It is worth listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jd21Tsl-vw
Good.
This will protect Stanford students, staff, and faculty, and mean that we won’t have an outbreak there which spreads to the surrounding community.
The Palo Alto Unified School District should follow Stanford’s lead and require vaccination for all students old enough as well.
Sorry, No heat but there is no data that supports what you said. The vaccines cannot prevent you from getting the virus nor can they keep you from spreading it if you do have it. The manufacturers have stated this, as has the CDC and WHO.
While the vaccines may lessen symptoms in some people, the jury is still out on their effectiveness to do so as there have been no clinical trials or long term studies to support that theory either. Wishful thinking doesn’t make it fact.
Given that younger people are highly unlikely to contract the virus and get sick, it seems like an overreach on the part of Stanford and the UC/CSU system to issue these mandates. I understand that as a private institution Stanford can do most anything it wants, but for the state (i.e., taxpayer funded) schools it may be considered a violation of civil liberties as there is no state or federal law that forces people to take the vaccine and the ACLU may soon have to take a look at this.
Its really hard to see how Israeli cases have dropped so much if the vaccine doesn’t mostly prevent people from spreading. Does it mean zero risk or zero spread? Of course not, but it sure results in a mich lower r
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) vaccines cannot be mandated, per federal law. https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/23/federal-law-prohibits-employers-and-others-from-requiring-vaccination-with-a-covid-19-vaccine-distributed-under-an-eua/
This applies not only to government sector but to private employers as well. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/under-federal-law-can-your-employer-make-you-get-covid-vaccine/
Stanford – and any other university or high school for that matter – should reverse course on their policy or face lawsuits (and liability for any vaccine adverse reactions or deaths, as the manufactures are exempt from liability, but not other organizations). Until a vaccine is approved through the FDA licensing process, which may take at least two more years, the vaccine cannot be mandated – period, full stop.
Let me also add, that like the Covid vaccines, the PCR test cannot be mandated either, as it too is authorized under emergency use authorization (EUA). https://ca-dev.childrenshealthdefense.org/home-page/childrens-health-defense-california-chapter-sends-letter-to-all-california-superintendents-regarding-medical-ethics-emergency-use-products-voluntary-testing-vaccine-safety/
In summary, it is illegal for Stanford to mandate EUA vaccinations as a condition to return to campus or, in the alternative, illegal to require EUA PCR tests for the unvaccinated.
As an aside, face masks for the general public are also only allowed under EUA, but that hasn’t stopped states, counties, and municipalities from mandating them. https://www.fda.gov/media/137121/download
Regarding @Alvin’s comments above:
Stanford has very good lawyers. I doubt very much they don’t know what they are doing.
Personally I strongly support mandatory COVID vaccination and mask wearing for EVERYONE, except for those who have genuine medical conditions which need to be certified by a medical professional. I am sick and tired of all those who find all sorts of excuses of not getting vaccinated or refusing to wear a mask and thereby putting everyone else at risk.
By the way, the Stat News article that @Alvin linked is just an opinion piece. Here is another opinion piece in the same Stat News expressing the exact opposite opinion:
https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/05/authorization-status-covid-19-vaccine-red-herring-mandating-vaccination/
As I said, Stanford, Princeton and UC have very good lawyers and law professors. I seriously doubt they don’t know what they are doing.
Furthermore, being a student of Stanford is a privilege granted by Stanford University. No one is entitled to it as a right. Stanford can tell those students who do not want to get vaccinated to go elsewhere.
@anonymous: “Stanford has very good lawyers. I doubt very much they don’t know what they are doing.”
You’re talking about the same Stanford lawyers who couldn’t draft a proper patent assignment document. Look up Stanford v. Roche, United States Supreme Court opinion. Embarrassing.
With regards to the mandatory vaccination policy, I believe Stanford knows exactly what it is doing – the UC’s at least have the prudence to wait until the vaccine is approved by the FDA – and Stanford will have to be made an example (again) for violating the law.
@Alvin: Perhaps it is you who should look up Stanford vs Roche. Here’s the Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_v._Roche_Molecular_Systems,_Inc.
It is far more complicated than what you made it out to be.
I am not lawyer and don’t pretend to be one. I know my limitations. But some people don’t seem to have such self-awareness.
Stanford has every right to do this, and I’m glad UC/CSU and other universities nationwide are following suit. Granted, younger people are less likely to get sick and die, but there are older staff members.
I’m vaccinated, and I think vaccination should be a personal choice. It’s a free country. As long as we reach herd immunity. I understand why some people don’t want the vaccine. I also understand universities need to clamp down (for obvious reasons) and they’re erring on the side of caution.
I’m curious what employers will do. I guess I’ll find out when most of us return to work “at the office.”
Regarding @Jennifer’s comment above:
“I’m vaccinated, and I think vaccination should be a personal choice. It’s a free country. As long as we reach herd immunity. I understand why some people don’t want the vaccine.”
I do NOT think vaccination should be a personal choice. Yes, this is a free country. But “freedom” should not include reckless behaviors that endanger other people’s health and welfare, especially those who cannot get vaccinated for genuine medical reasons. A healthy person who refuses to get vaccinated is just like a reckless driver on the road or a factory which emits harmful pollutions. Furthermore, those who take advantage of the herd immunity created by other people getting vaccinated but are unwilling to get vaccinated himself or herself are just like people who refuse to pay tax and yet want to enjoy the protection and services that governments provide. Like tax cheats, they should be punished.
@no heat: “This will protect Stanford students, staff, and faculty, and mean that we won’t have an outbreak there which spreads to the surrounding community.”
There is no evidence that this “vaccine” can prevent Covid infection. The most that can be said is it reduces symptoms of Covid for some.
@Make Force Rare: “Its really hard to see how Israeli cases have dropped so much if the vaccine doesn’t mostly prevent people from spreading…”
Cases in Israel, like much of the world, started dropping by late-January of 2021 (before any widespread adoption of the “vaccine”) and has continued a downward sloping path ever since. You can look it up on Worldometers.
@Jennifer: “Granted, younger people are less likely to get sick and die, but there are older staff members.”
Agree completely on the younger people part, but older staff members have most likely been exposed by now – this thing was circulating by late 2019/early 2020. It’s over 16 months now and beyond endemic by this point. There’s no escaping it.
@Anonymous.
If you’re vaccinated and protected, why do you care if others are not? If you’re wearing a mask or two, why does it bother when others choose to live unmasked?
None of what you’re saying makes sense to me and the implications are dangerous. How far are you willing to go with your “free-rider” arguments. Is it selfish of others not to work full-time or as hard as others paying the majority of taxes yet enjoying the same protections and benefit of government? My neighbor paying very little in property taxes compared to me, though our homes are roughly equal in value – I purchased mine more recently – yet the neighbor enjoys as much the same benefits of public schools and services as my children? How about that family that is not bundled up in cold weather and risking a cold, while I am wearing two coats and less likely to catch a cold. Should I scold that couple for being careless and risking a cold that could spread to others? The guy who finished working out and is walking around in a wet (sweaty) t-shirt, should I yell and scream at him to change his shirt because he might get sick and spread it?
How far do you want to take this?
@Alvin: I agree with you 100% now. Please don’t get vaccinated. It was pure obtuseness on my part that I did not see the advantage of letting nutcases play Russian roulette with their own lives.