Tag: vaccine

November 3, 2022

The 2023 interim COVID-19 vaccine schedule for children 6 months through 17 years shows a series of three shots spread out over 3 to 8 weeks depending on the vaccine brand. A recommended interim COVID-19 vaccine schedule was also released […]

September 21, 2021

Back in July, administrators at Stockton University in New Jersey were worried about compliance with the institution’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement. Only about a third of students had submitted proof of vaccination or a request for an exemption as of about […]

September 16, 2021

For over a year, schools have been caught up in heated debates over closure, remote learning, social distancing, and masking. While many educators and parents hoped that things would settle down once vaccines were widely available, vaccine hesitancy and the […]

September 9, 2021

When Virginia Tech announced in June that it would require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19, Ben Walls, a junior multimedia journalism student, was upset. As co-president of the Virginia Tech Young Americans for Liberty, a youth libertarian organization with […]

August 25, 2021

Attorneys representing a group of Arizona educators have filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to block four budget reconciliation bills that contain prohibitions on mask and vaccination mandates at public schools and universities. The lawsuit was filed against the […]

July 26, 2021

Quinnipiac University is training students to work with local health departments to address vaccine hesitancy in communities across Connecticut. The Connecticut Public Health College Corps program is training about 110 students from across the state in topics including vaccine knowledge […]

July 7, 2021

School may still seem blissfully far off for American students in the midst of summer. But for many who are eligible, time may be running out for a back-to-school necessity: getting fully vaccinated against the coronavirus before classes resume. Many […]

April 22, 2021

Fifteen community college presidents, members of the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges, announced that their institutions have no plans to require students or employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. “It is essential that we meet the needs of all […]

December 15, 2020

States and cities across the country are moving to put teachers near the front of the line to receive a coronavirus vaccine, in an effort to make it safer to return to classrooms and provide relief to struggling students and […]

December 14, 2020

Pharmaceutical companies hustled to produce a vaccine. Pfizer’s vaccine, which the FDA authorized Friday for emergency use, is already being distributed. College students and faculty won’t generally be among the first to get it, however. Each state has developed a […]

December 4, 2020

What’s next: kids’ vaccines The first coronavirus vaccines for adults are nearly here, but children’s vaccines will take a lot longer. Pfizer and Moderna’s pediatric trials are just getting started for children older than 12. So what does that mean […]

July 10, 2020

As coronavirus vaccine candidates enter trials, with some of the earliest predictions landing availability sometime early next year, leaders are raising alarms around the possibility of parents and children who may seek exemptions from the requirement. “My fear is that […]

March 4, 2020

Universities across the country are part of the urgent effort to research the virus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19, together colloquially called the coronavirus. Globally, the virus has infected over 90,000 people and resulted in over 3,000 deaths, […]

May 13, 2019

In 2000, the U.S. declared that widespread vaccination efforts had successfully eliminated measles — a highly contagious viral infection — from the country. After that, the disease affected only a relatively small population, mostly made up of people who traveled […]