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When Even “The Pope Said So” Isn’t Enough to Convince Catholic College Students to Vaccinate
Boston College cites the Pope as an authority but some angry parents are not having it
If you are a Catholic university and you want to convince your Catholic students and their parents you are right, what better authority can you have than the Pope?
Not so fast, say angry parents. I know better than the Pope.
If you want to attend Boston College in the fall you will need your Tdap, Hep. B, MMR, Varicella, and Meningococcal just like every other year, but you’ll also need a new one, Covid-19.
Boston College is in good company. BestColleges.com is keeping a list of all colleges and universities in the US requiring the Covid vaccine. The list is updated daily as huge numbers of both private and public institutions jump on the bandwagon.
Colleges have a pretty solid reason to want universal student vaccines. Dorms are a known petri dish of infections. Students sit next to each other for hours in crowded lecture halls. Trying to keep young adults newly freed from parental oversight from gathering to party is a fool’s errand.
Covid 19 may be less life-threatening for 20-year-olds than old people, but it is no…
