Is your child’s boarding school requiring another covid booster to remain at school for Winter term (2023)? Thanks!
It was strongly recommended and offered on campus but not “required”. Flu vaccination was required (as it has been every year).
may I ask which Prep school?
No.
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It is available on campus but not necessarily “required”. However, if you are traveling abroad for Winterim (and most of the school does), it is required.
We have kiddos at two schools…not a peep from kiddo1’s school about the booster (which is surprising bcs they had very strict covid protocols for the first two years of covid). Kiddo2’s school is having an optional, but encouraged, booster clinic before Thanksgiving break.
Not so far but I keep waiting for the guillotine to drop.
Required ? Not sure but both of my bs daughters will get it
It has been offered and will be offered again. It is “required “ for all students, faculty and staff. (You can request medical or religious exemption)
What do you mean?
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I keep waiting for schools to require boosters. I consider that a guillotine. It is not only a serious invasion of medical autonomy but also teetering on the edge of being safe and effective and should therefore be a personal choice, not a mass dictate.
At Groton, even kids who should have exemptions, both medical and ethical, have been outright denied. In fact the headmaster has made a joke about parents concerns for his over-reaching invasion of our kids’ bodily autonomy.
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Do they require other vaccines?
For other vaccines medical and religious exemptions are accepted.
And not to nit pick but there are plenty of mainstream doctors who have come out saying that the risk from the Covid vaccine is not worth it for teenagers, especially boys. I haven’t heard that about dtap. So to compare vaccines with years of study and known side effects to a vaccine that is still new enough that side effects are just being discovered is simply not ethical. New study out of Germany showing mild heart damage in 3% of participants after booster. If you are forced to get booster after booster…I’d like people to be able to make their own choice. It is simply not as cut and dry as people want to pretend.
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If you mean https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2205667?query=featured_home , it says no such thing, since it was a study of people who had myocarditis, not a random sample of those receiving vaccinations.
Remember also that COVID-19 itself poses a myocarditis risk much higher than that of getting an mRNA vaccine, since the virus’ spike proteins induce similar antibody responses that could lead to myocarditis in those prone to such a thing.
In addition, the J&J vaccine is still available for those younger men who are concerned about myocarditis risk from mRNA vaccines or Novavax vaccine. (However, it is associated with rare clotting disorders in younger women.)
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I wasn’t asking if your school required other vaccines to start a debate about the Covid Vaccine. That debate has been done to death and I have no interest in it. I was just curious if they require other vaccines. It is strange that they would allow exemptions to other vaccines but not for the Covid one.
I do not believe the J&J Covid vaccine is approved for anyone under 18. Also, it’s hardly available for those 18 and over.
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The data is out of Switzerland, not Germany. It has been presented in Europe, but not yet peer-reviewed and published.
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No that’s not the study I was referring to - but regardless - I still don’t understand how anyone thinks there’s a universal right and wrong. If a kid has had a reaction to the Covid vaccine they should be able to opt out of boosters. Regardless of your opinion on Covid vaccines it should remain a personal choice, like so many other medical decisions in America.
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I have learned that Phillips Andover is requiring all students to have the new Covid booster in order to be able to return to campus in January. To my knowledge, it is the only high school in the country that has mandated this requirement. Is this accurate or does anybody know of other schools requiring the new booster?
But it is your choice whether to take it or not. There is just a consequence to that choice which may or may not be returning to a private school.