03-01-2023, 12:28 PM
AllGold wrote:
https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/stor...955515007/
Personally, I'm not a fan of the decision. I think the vaccine can only help, not hurt.
This reflects an irresponsible refusal to grapple with the realities of epidemiology. The existence of vaccines and treatments is NOT a good reason to stop requiring vaccination. I am inclined to invoke RBG's warning about umbrellas and rainstorms.
Regardless of the blather about widespread protection and personal health responsibility, this still throws a significant number of people under the bus -- people who are immunocompromised, those who REALLY can't be vaccinated, etc, etc. The unvaccinated can still get sick, can spread the virus to the vaccinated, who may then carry their "mild" cases home to family members who are vulnerable to getting really sick.
EAST LANSING – Michigan State University is dropping a COVID-19 vaccine and booster mandate for students and staff a little more than a year after introducing the requirement at the height of the pandemic.
MSU officials announced Tuesday that students and staff will no longer be required to receive COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters in order to study and work at the East Lansing campus.
University Physician Michael Brown, in a communication, said MSU was dropping the mandates due to the “widespread protection” as more and more people have become vaccinated and as more treatment options are now more widely available.
“Thus, as the pandemic continues to shift from an acute public health crisis to a personal health responsibility, MSU no longer will require the COVID-19 vaccination for students, staff and faculty, effective today,” Brown said in the communication. “There still may be limited situations in which professional students and employees must be vaccinated due to the requirements of the hospitals and health care facilities where they work and study.”