The California State University System and the University of California will require students, faculty and staff to get COVID vaccines in order to access on-campus facilities in the Fall. The mandate is conditioned upon full approval of one or more vaccines by the FDA . CSU and UC enroll and employ more than one million people statewide across 33 university campuses.
(Palo Alto, CA) — Stanford University will require all students to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 to come to school this fall. University officials tell KRON-TV it will accommodate those who cannot get immunized for medical or religious reasons, and they will help students who are struggling to get their shots. The school currently requires students on campus to complete a self-report health status daily and test for COVID-19 two times a week. The school says they will release policy specifics in the coming days. and California state universities tweeted :
@calstate Breaking: The @calstate and @UofCalifornia will require faculty, staff and students who are accessing campus facilities to be immunized against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, pending full approval of one or more vaccines by the @US_FDA
Cal State (https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-COVID-Vax-Requirement-FDA-Approval.aspx) says:
This requirement will be conditioned upon full approval of one or more vaccines by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as adequate availability of the fully approved vaccines. This requirement will become effective at the beginning of the fall 2021 term, or upon full FDA approval of the vaccine,
(they are currently approved only for ememrgency use authorization), whichever occurs later.– a date that is currently not yet determined.
