Several American colleges are mandating students receive an updated COVID-19 booster shot, but some are pushing back, stating that the mandate is 'out of line' with what other schools are doing.
Professor Andrea Hoerig and her attorney, Tom Connors, join 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss why she filed suit over her school's COVID-related restrictions.across the country are mandating students to receive an updated COVID-19 booster shot, but some are calling the requirement"out of line" and unnecessary.
Yale University is requiring students to get"an updated, bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster by the start of the spring semester," while faculty and staff are"strongly encouraged" to get the updated vaccine booster. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration states that a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster"include[s] a component of the original virus strain to provide broad protection against COVID-19 and a component of the omicron variant to provide better protection against COVID-19 caused by the omicron variant."Many schools across the country required a COVID-19 vaccine for attendance when it first rolled out, and a smaller number of colleges are now requiring the updated booster shot.
Bellia said that there has been significant pushback on the additional booster requirement from the student body at Fordham.Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News medical analyst and professor of medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center, said that while colleges have the right to mandate the booster vaccine, he's against such action.
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