Jan. 19. Davidson College in-person instruction will resume on is Jan. 31. Students must have a negative COVID test within 48 hours of returning to campus and will be required to get booster as soon as they are eligible.
The current campus policy of requiring masks in indoor public spaces will continue and proof of vaccination will be required to attend basketball games.
Event staff will enforce mask guidelines in the crowd.
During the 2020-2021 academic year, the college spent more than $10 million on testing, isolation and quarantine, enhanced cleaning of residence halls and other measures.
Why would Davidson College require the healthy students to get a booster? where is the science? It is a fact that it doesn’t stop the spread! It is a fact that health people especially young healthy people Don’t get very sick from this virus if at all. Its more likely a person between 13 and 19 will die in a car accident then of Covid. Over 2,300 kids between 13 and 19 died in car accidents in 2019. what’s the death rate from Covid of healthy kids between 13 and 19? Good luck trying to find that information on CDC web site. if you really care about young life Why let them continue to drive?? Its a simple question, Why vaccinate health people that don’t want it?? Why
It is interesting that you point that out, Rick. Almost every person I have personally known of with the disease over the last few months has had their some or all of the shots. The most recent example was last week. The 50+ adult who contracted COVID had had one shot, and he didn’t know he had COVID until he had already been around a group of people for several hours. Out of the group, the only other person who contracted COVID was one woman … who also happened to be the only person in the group who has had ALL of the shots. The others had only one shot or none at all. Fortunately, neither of them were not seriously ill. Now, it might be argued that the shots could lessen symptoms. Maybe. But that can’t really be proven, because almost every communicable disease is extreme for some people and mild for others. And it might be argued that the “healthy kids” can spread it to unhealthy / susceptible people, so that is why the “healthy kids” should get the shots. But if the shots don’t actually prevent the person from contracting … and spreading … the disease, then why give the shots – which have completely unknown long-term consequences – to the “kids”. I just don’t get it. This discussion would require way more space than any of use can / should take here. Just sharing some similar thoughts on a very touchy subject.