Duke to require students to be vaccinated for fall semester

[brooklynite]

Source: Duke Chronicle

All students will have to be vaccinated for COVID-19 before they can enroll for the fall semester, President Vincent Price announced Friday.

The policy covers all undergraduate and graduate students who intend to be on campus for any amount of time starting in the fall, and students will have to present proof of their vaccination to Student Health before enrolling. Duke will accommodate documented medical and religious exemptions.

“Looking ahead, we know that widespread vaccination will be the only way to facilitate a return to normal and robust campus life,” Price wrote in a message to students, faculty and staff.

Duke has offered all students and employees the opportunity to be vaccinated, Price noted. He urged those who have not yet been vaccinated to schedule appointments as soon as possible.

Read more: https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2021/04/duke-university-vaccines-required-fall

[Shermann]

1. Have there been any plausible religious exemptions concocted yet?

One clever conservative will develop the talking point, then the rest of the right-wingers will parrot it. I can't wait to hear what it is.

[jmowreader]

9. Since Duke is a Christian school, that won't get far

It is affiliated with the Methodist Church.

[VarryOn]

2. Lawsuit coming in 3-2-1. Nt

[Haggard Celine]

3. President Vincent Price.

I like it!

[winstars]

6. I wonder if he gets asked much if... LOL

[DesertRat]

10. ...

[WHITT]

4. Also Requiring Vaccination

Rutgers University

Cornell

Brown

Notre Dame

Northeastern

Syracuse University

Ithaca College

Fort Lewis College

Roger Williams University

St. Edward's University

Nova Southeastern University


More every day.

[thenelm1]

12. Gotta wonder if any of the private colleges in Florida will follow suit?

I think this list is all of private institutions, including Duke, rather than state, yes? Which then begs the question, what would be the idjit gov from that state's response? Cynical as it might be, if the "don't ask, don't tell" like COVID state policy were to result in say, adverse effects to the several Florida state university's nationally ranked athletic programs, along with the angst of their benefactors, would that finally get this SOB's attention? Even as unlikely as that might sound. Far fetched for sure, but just asking for friend. Concerned parents, particularly for out of state students, might not be quite so easily mollified given the uncertainty of the of the ongoing mutations in the virus. If nothing else, all parents want their kids to be in a safe environment.

[WHITT]

13. I Believe I Read

that the Florida state schools will provide vaccinations for any student that wants it, but no mandate. Of course that was obvious with Governor "Live and Let Die" DeSantis.

[Desert grandma]

17. Fort Lewis College

in Durango, Colorado is a state institution. Colorado with their Democratic Governor is doing a good job.

[Paladin]

5. Kids who get into Duke are smart enough to not be anti-vax. (nt)

[Red Mountain]

7. They wish

See Stephen Miller......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advisor)

[roamer65]

8. Fuck yeah!

[jmowreader]

11. You knew this was coming

Duke got thrown out of the ACC men’s basketball tournament for a positive test on one of its players. Since winning the tournament was the only way this year’s Devils were going dancing, that must have hurt.

[Initech]

15. The only way they will learn is when it hits them in the pocketbook.

Otherwise it's same shit, different day. No one should listen to anti-vaxxers. I personally place them on the same level as terrorists and serial killers.

[Initech]

14. That's the way it should be!

Fuck anti-vaxxers!

[twodogsbarking]

16. I like my name but I would

trade it for Vincent Price in a minute.