On Tuesday, reports surfaced that 48 colleges across the country continue to require prospective students to receive the COVID-19 shot for admission, almost a year after the pandemic was declared over by Congress. Lawmakers and policy experts are decrying the ongoing mandates as discriminatory, unnecessary, overly burdensome, and potentially dangerous.
The list of colleges requiring the shot, which is maintained by the No College Mandates organization, includes mostly private colleges, with a few prominent exceptions such as Johns Hopkins University.
Following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent revision of its COVID-19 guidelines that suggests staying at home for 24 hours following a fever (which had previously been five days), Harvard University dropped its COVID-19 shot requirement in early March, with a number of other smaller colleges…
