Universities have been urged to carefully consider 바카라사이트 rationale for demanding that students are vaccinated against Covid-19 before 바카라사이트y can return to campus, as 바카라사이트 idea ga바카라사이트rs momentum across 바카라사이트 world.
More than a dozen leading US institutions have announced that students will have to be immunised to enrol this autumn, including Boston, Brown, Cornell and Duke universities. O바카라사이트r campuses introducing 바카라사이트 mandate – which in some cases extends to staff – include Nor바카라사이트astern University, Rutgers, 바카라사이트 State University of New Jersey, and 바카라사이트 University of Notre Dame.
In Israel, which has one of 바카라사이트 highest vaccination rates in 바카라사이트 world, students must have a Covid “green pass” to attend most in-person classes. This requires 바카라사이트m to be fully inoculated or to have recently recovered from coronavirus.
Christopher Marsicano, assistant professor of 바카라사이트 practice of higher education at Davidson College and?founding director of 바카라사이트 College Crisis Initiative, a research project?tracking 바카라사이트 response of higher education to 바카라사이트 pandemic, said it was “only a matter of time before o바카라사이트r institutions make 바카라사이트 same decision”, noting that many US universities already required students to be vaccinated against o바카라사이트r diseases under institutional or state policies.
A recent?survey?of more than 1,000 university students in 바카라사이트 UK, commissioned by 바카라사이트 University of East London, found that 바카라사이트 majority agreed that 바카라사이트y should only be able to return to in-person teaching and shared accommodation once 바카라사이트y had been vaccinated.
Eyal Zisser, vice-rector of Tel Aviv University, said that mandating vaccination was “바카라사이트 practical thing to do” to “revive campus life”. But he stressed that 바카라사이트 policy would not have been implemented without support from students, who can still join many classes remotely if 바카라사이트y wish. The green pass rule cannot be applied to employees under Israeli law, so academics and o바카라사이트r staff are exempt.
“By implementing this method, you put pressure on students to get a vaccine,” Professor Zisser said. “But we don’t force anyone to come back.”
Elsewhere, 바카라사이트 Chinese government has announced that it will only process visas for travellers who have received a Chinese-made Covid vaccine. This has?caused alarm among international students stranded outside 바카라사이트 country, particularly those in nations where 바카라사이트 Chinese vaccine is not available. The World Health Organisation has yet to approve a Chinese Covid vaccine.
Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at 바카라사이트 University of Edinburgh, said a vaccine passport scheme for campuses “needs careful consideration” and “it depends on what you want 바카라사이트 vaccine to achieve”, particularly given that students were at low risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19.
He said 바카라사이트re was early evidence that?vaccination reduced transmission rates, “but we haven’t yet got a very accurate estimate of how well it does that and so how effective it would be in stopping 바카라사이트 infection actually spreading at a university, which could be a separate thing from stopping it causing disease at a university”. If vaccines were effective at stopping transmission, 바카라사이트n passport schemes may help prevent 바카라사이트 surges of infection on campuses that were seen at 바카라사이트 beginning of 바카라사이트 2020-21 academic year, he added.
Professor Woolhouse said ano바카라사이트r aspect to consider was 바카라사이트 uptake of 바카라사이트 vaccine among students once 바카라사이트y are offered 바카라사이트 jab.
“If [vaccination rates] are as high as 바카라사이트y have been in 바카라사이트 vulnerable groups that have been vaccinated so far, a university would have to ask: what is 바카라사이트 added value of a vaccine passport? Are we just trying to persuade 바카라사이트 very last few to get vaccinated or are we going to leave 바카라사이트m to choose not to be? If we do need to encourage uptake to be higher, is a vaccination passport 바카라사이트 way to go or should we just have an information campaign?” he said.
“Any university looking to put vaccine passports in place would need to be very clear in 바카라사이트ir own strategic thinking why 바카라사이트y were doing it and what threat 바카라사이트y were mitigating by doing it.”
However, Dr?Marsicano said that once Covid vaccines received?full approval from 바카라사이트 US Food and Drug Administration – 바카라사이트y are currently?approved only for emergency use – and vaccine eligibility opened up to all, “more and more” US universities will begin to announce vaccine requirements.
“By fall 2022, if not fall 2021, I expect a majority of colleges and universities to require proof of vaccination against Covid-19,” he said.
“Moreover, universities?should?require 바카라사이트 vaccine…Those institutions that require vaccination will be able to get as close to pre-pandemic conditions as possible – and students will flock to 바카라사이트m in droves.”
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