48 colleges nationwide still require COVID vaccine

Four dozen colleges in the United States still maintain a COVID-19 vaccine requirement despite the CDC loosening protocols for the virus earlier this month and ongoing concerns about possible side effects and the overall effectiveness of the shots.

The tally is maintained by No College Mandates, an organization critical of the requirements, which argues on its website that the “coercive nature of college vaccine mandates completely disregards students’ individual freedom and right to bodily autonomy.”

The CDC recently recommended that the five-day isolation period for those who test positive for COVID be reduced to a 24-hour isolation period.

Shortly after the announcement, Harvard University ended its COVID vaccine mandate, “walking back on its announcement just weeks earlier that all students needed the shot to register for the fall semester,” the Epoch Times reported.