Vax Optional Colleges with Outstanding Art Programs

ucbalumnus
Sun, 04 Jul 2021 02:37:50 +0000

In the informational post about college policies, many colleges’ policies linked from there have stated that unvaccinated students are subject to additional COVID-19 protocols (e.g. more frequent testing, quarantine requirements if exposed, and/or increased mask wearing requirements).

However, if the state does not allow the use of “vaccine passports”, then the college would not be allowed to enforce such additional COVID-19 protocols only on unvaccinated students (since it is not allowed to verify vaccination status). That could mean that, at least if there is an outbreak, all students could be subject to additional restrictions if the college wanted to try to contain the outbreak or otherwise limit the risk of COVID-19 to the medically vulnerable members of its community. Or it may decide that protecting the medically vulnerable is not possible (practically or politically) and let COVID-19 do whatever it does (and the not-medically-vulnerable have their personal choice of whether to play COVID-19 lottery by whether or not they get vaccinated).