Harvard requires the 2020 COVID vaccines; how well do they work in 2023?

by philg

On August 7, 2023, I was checking some Harvard University academic calendar dates and found the following page:

COVID-19: To keep Harvard healthy, if you will have an “on-campus presence,” you must comply with Harvard University’s COVID-19 immunization policy. You are required to submit documentation within 10 days of registering for any course with any on-campus presence. You risk being dropped from your on-campus courses, even after classes begin, if you do not upload your documentation in an expedited manner or if your status is non-compliant. Visit the Immunization Requirements page for details.

Following the link:

Harvard University requires 2 FDA- or WHO- authorized COVID-19 vaccinations, OR 1 bivalent dose for all eligible students.

You must submit proof of vaccination (or medical or religious exemption documentation) to University Health Services if you will have any on-campus presence.

You are required to submit documentation within 10 days of registering for any course with any on-campus presence. You risk being dropped from your on-campus courses, even after classes begin, if you do not upload your documentation in an expedited manner or if your status is noncompliant.

Also, for good measure…

Flu: one immunization after July 1, 2023

(The flu vaccine isn’t available to those 13-64 years of age in the UK, but the public health experts at Harvard require it for healthy college-age humans.)

A few questions… the J&J one-shot COVID-19 vaccination was FDA-authorized (though never “approved”). Why does Harvard then demand 2 shots? Let’s assume for the sake of argument that college-age students benefit from COVID-19 shots. Is there any evidence that the 2020 COVID-19 shots provide any benefit with respect to the currently circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2?

Related:

If any of the above is memory-holed:

26 thoughts on “Harvard requires the 2020 COVID vaccines; how well do they work in 2023?”

  1. Is there any evidence that the 2020 COVID-19 shots provide any benefit with respect to the currently circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2? No!

  2. A cadre school must indoctrinate future leaders. And some professors probably feel safer, students be damned.

    Someone needs to go to the Supreme Court again, which seems to be the only functioning institution.

  3. The real purpose of the mandates is to exclude those who do not follow the Antichrist from participating in economy:
    Rev 13:16-17
    “Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.”

    College vaccine mandates cause a net harm and are a violation of medical ethics:
    https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/early/2022/12/05/jme-2022-108449.full.pdf

    Many countries no longer recommend vaccination (Denmark, UK, Switzerland);
    https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/impfen.html
    “In principle, no COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for spring/summer 2023….In principle, it is also not currently recommended for people at especially high risk to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.”

    Dr. David Spade, MD and Dr. Dana Carvey, MD, recently had a brief conference on the issue:
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oH5tk98Pnc4

  5. Flu shots aren’t free on the NHS for younger people in the UK, but they are available – you can just go into a pharmacy and get one for a few pounds. I don’t know how many people do this but my local pharmacy offers them and they don’t seem surprised when I turn up every year.

  7. 1. Note “Dr” Phil prefers the recommendation of socialized medicine over capitalist medicine.

    2. If I can get a shot to avoid a few days of moderate-to-severe pain and discomfort, I will. I’m not a wimp who is afraid of needles like “Dr” Phil. Or maybe he is just proving his loyalty to … who? Tucker Carlson? Donald Trump? Alex Jones? RFK Jr? Another right-wing idle-rich nutcase? Either way it doesn’t look as manly as he thinks it does to ridicule vaccine takers.

  8. Regarding flu vaccines, it’s important to look at the long-term trends:
    https://www.statnews.com/2015/11/11/flu-shots-reduce-effectiveness/
    “The evidence, which is confounding some researchers, suggests that getting flu shots repeatedly can gradually reduce the effectiveness of the vaccines under some circumstances.”

    It is always a guess, and varies from year to year:
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-vaccine-effectiveness-study-signals-no-protection-this-year-in-canada-1.2937144
    “This year’s flu vaccine offers little or no protection in Canada against becoming sick enough to require medical care, a study published Thursday suggests.”

  9. Does Harvard know about this? 2 studies, using before-and-after blood tests, found heart damage in 3.5% and 2.8% of student-age people after receiving the vax.

    • Guessing the faucian docters at Harvard view this unfortunate heart damage as the price we all pay for the greater good. Also clearly violates their hypocratic oath.

    • I know my last ‘rona shot gave me a couple of days of mild but sharp chest pains. That was lovely and I really don’t want to do that again. (Nor do I want to have the ‘rona again; would be nice if the shots gave immunity)

  10. Given the evident by now lack of efficacy (and equally evident high risk of serious side effects) I would say the vaccine requirement is not sustained for medical reasons.

    Instead, it serves as an strong ideological filter selecting for communists and other species of compliant collectivists. Basically, why waste effort brainwashing the future “elite” when it’s easier to weed out the independently-minded kids from deplorable families?

  12. If they are smart enough to get into Harvard, they are smart enough to create proof of vacc. doc’s with or without getting vaccine

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