Santa Clara University – a Jesuit school founded in 1851 – is requiring that all students have COVID shots if they wish to attend this fall.
And, no, they are not offering a religious exemption.
SCU is one of about 100 accredited, four-year colleges in the country that is still demanding COVID shots – the other 96% are not.
The “vaccine” requirement has drawn the attention – and ire – of medical professionals and advocates in California and across the country and the pressure is reportedly building on SCU to re-think its decision.
Lucia Sinatra of No College Mandates, an organization dedicated to ending such mandates nationwide said her group has learned that a number of members of the SCU Board of Trustees have relayed their deep concern about the issue to school president Julie Sullivan.
Additionally, official complaints have and are being filed with the appropriate state offices and a number of other noted experts in the field and officials are expected to add their voices to the call for SCU to drop the mandates in the coming week.
Dr. Clayton Baker, internist and former Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester, penned an open letter questioning the mandates to Sullivan and SCU medical chief Dr. Lewis Osofsky. Osofsky is a COVID hardliner who allegedly attempted to have a doctor who wrote a medical exemption for a student who suffered a severe reaction to her first shot withdraw his professional recommendation – if accurate, a serious breach of ethics.
In the letter, Dr. Baker wrote:
There is good reason why the overwhelming majority of colleges have dropped COVID vaccine mandates. That is because there is zero legitimate clinical indication for college students to get the COVID-19 vaccine, especially at this late date.
Dr. Tracy Hoeg – epidemiologist in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco and one of the doctors who sued to overturn the state’s ban on doctors not being able to talk freely with their patients about covid said that not only is the mandate “unethical and coercive,” it doesn’t make any sense even if you follow Covidian logic.
The SCU mandate can be met with having either taken three jabs of the original “monovalent” shot (and its boosters) or one shot of the newer “bivalent” offering.
Hoeg said that even if the older shots worked, their theoretical protection would have worn off by now. As to the newer shots, there is not yet any proper evidence or competent study to show their effectiveness, Hoeg said….
From the California Globe
Why mandate the Covid shot which has proven to be unreliable?
More evidence of little dictators still wanting to control us. They will clutch whatever perceived power they have, regardless of consequence. Let the doors of this Jesuit institution close.
Ite cum Jesu, non cum Jesuitis.
Go with Jesus, not with the Jesuits
Requiring the “vaccine” at this point is ludicrous. It was unwise and unjustified from the beginning, but now it’s just ludicrous and wrong to require it. Let people make up their own minds if they want the clot shot. The vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission nor infection, so what’s the point of requiring it now?
The Jesuits were intellectual giants as recently as the 60’s and many, more elderly into the 70’s. They’re an intellectual wasteland now with authentic ‘old school’ Jesuits being the start outliers. We still do have the patrimony of the Jesuits and perhaps that will be used to rebuild the towering tradition of a once great order. Pretty sure it won’t be in my lifetime as I’m not quite 60 yet.
Sadly…all you need to see is the word Jesuit and… “Oh yeah, I get it”
:-(
Really need a vaccine to render students immune
to Jesuit brainwashing.
Jeb, no vaccine is necessary. Catholic parents simply need to stop sending their young adult children to Jesuit schools. Tuition, room & board this year at SCU is $77,208. It’s much less expensive at several colleges that are truly Catholic.
Whatever happened to follow the science? Maybe there’s a reason 96% of colleges don’t require the vaccine.