All 12 universities in the University System of Maryland will require students, faculty and staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to campuses this fall.
USM Chancellor Jay Perman issued the mandate in announcement made Friday.
In a statement, he said: I’d like to frame my remarks not only as System chancellor, but as a physician—a pediatrician. My entire career has been focused on children, through early adulthood. As a physician, everything I do in my practice requires a risk/benefit analysis. There is no ‘free ride.’ And so in my role as chancellor—with the vital counsel of epidemiologists and public health experts—I find myself looking at risk/benefit again, not at the patient level, but at the population level. If we examine the data—and there is an extraordinary accumulation of data—we see that the risk of vaccines is very low, whereas the risk of COVID is very high. And that risk is increasingly falling on young people. This is no longer a disease for the old. The data on the new COVID cases in Maryland show that 40 percent are patients under 40 years old.
The announcement says that all eligible students, faculty and staff on the system’s campuses must be vaccinated, with appropriate exemptions for medical or religious reasons.
USM includes Bowie State University; Coppin State University; Frostburg State University; Salisbury University; Towson University; University of Baltimore; University of Maryland Baltimore; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; University of Maryland, College Park; University of Maryland Eastern Shore; University of Maryland Global Campus; and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. It also includes three regional higher education centers.
99.8 percent recovery rate. Screw the data. KNEEL
Law Suit
Making it harder to get an education. These sob’s are so arrogant to think we need them, not the other way around. They charge outrageous tuitions. They’re all part of the new control everybody system. Maryland is going the way of California fast.
I do hope they get sued for violating people’s rights! No one should be able to force anyone to take this whack vaccine!
Constitutional?
Good. They open themselves up to lawsuits when people have bad reactions. Hopefully no one dies.
let’s change some wording and see how dumb this really is.
All 12 universities in the University System of Maryland will require students, faculty and staff to get a brand new Chevrolet before returning to campuses this fall.
USM Chancellor Jay Perman issued the mandate in announcement made Friday