‘Ruthlessly enforced’ COVID vaccine mandate at Santa Clara University harms students, appeal alleges

A group of medical freedom experts and students are challenging aspects of Santa Clara University’s ongoing COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which includes requiring incoming freshmen to receive the shot. They have filed an appeal that alleges the policy is “ruthlessly enforced.”

It was filed in June after a 2022 lawsuit against the policy was dismissed by the courts.

The appeal lists two SCU students and the California chapter of Children’s Health Defense, an organization involved in multiple vaccine lawsuits, as appellants. One of the student plaintiffs was initially denied a medical exemption from the university’s mandatory booster policy even though she had a severe reaction to her first COVID vaccine and her doctors supported her exemption request.