Four years after the pandemic began and months (or years, depending upon your politics) after it ended, New Jersey’s largest university system is finally dropping its Covid-19 vaccine mandate, one of the last such requirements at a major U.S. college.
“As of April 1, 2024, Rutgers no longer requires students, faculty, staff, and university affiliates to be immunized against the COVID-19 virus,” the university announced on its website.
The move comes a month after a prominent state senator called for the university to either drop its mandate or face an attack on its very substantial public funding.
“It is difficult to put into words just how absurd and irrational the vaccination policy is at Rutgers University,” said state Senator Declan O’Scanlon (R-13) in early March. “The 2024-2025 semester is just around the corner and the administrators at Rutgers still insist that all students, faculty, and staff receive the COVID-19 vaccine—a policy that has no basis in science whatsoever. In fact, the entire policy is anti-science.”
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