So Harvard decided to mandate the new bivalent booster shot for all students, but not for faculty and staff.
Personally Iâm with Dr. Paul Offit on this one, and donât think itâs appropriate to mandate it for anyone at this time, for a variety of reasons. But if you are going to mandate it, why wouldnât you want to include faculty and staff as well? Currently the virus is much more dangerous to older folks than to the student-age population, so faculty are more likely to benefit from it.
Personally, Iâm all for mandatory COVID vaccines for everyone who doesnât have a real medical reason to not have one, with harsh and comprehensive penalties for the refusees. Perhaps itâs a good thing Iâm not in charge, though.
Yes, but there are certainly a lot of medical experts who were in favor of mandates for the primary vaccine series who are not in favor of mandates for the newest bivalent booster, at least at this time. Opinions will differ but, like I said, Iâm with Dr. Paul Offit on this one.
And by exempting faculty the Harvard policy seems specifically designed to annoy both the pro and anti mandate folks.
How could anyone have seen this coming?
Weâve become well acquainted with the issues of melanin and pulse ox reading. How about melanin and no-touch thermometers? âShocking revelations, we are deeply affected!â*
Horrible.
Modern warfare? Cannon fodder is now Covid fodder.
When Biden said âthe pandemic is over,â I think he was right, but not in the way he meant. We are no longer treating it as abnormal. Covid killing scores of people daily is the new normal, and it seems a whole lot of folks are OK with that. We shall see what happens this winter, with flu coming raging back after a couple years of being a nonfactor, and covid most certainly still doing itâs thing. But I gotta say, as a medical professional, acceptin this situation as normal SUCKS.
True.
Who gets a ventilator? And what happens if a conservative makes that decision about the value of your life?
Not the result I expected. I donât think anyone would have thought that 'be a black woman â would be the route to better treatment.
And of course being transgender is a death sentence in the US healthcare system.
