I live with my aunt and she is against vaccines. Will colleges allow me to attend if I haven’t been vaccinated? I’m going to live off campus. With the chinese virus are they going to make everyone have the vaccine when they make one?
Also I am 16 so I can’t get any vaccines unfortunately.
Many colleges will require vaccines. Since there isn’t one for the coronavirus (it is not called the Chinese virus) that’s a moot question right now.
What state do you live in? In many states, minors (minimum age varies) can get vaccines without parental or guardian consent. Regardless, when you go to college you will need to be vaccinated per the college’s requirements. You can go online to a couple of college websites and check which vaccines are required.
I live in Alabama and I looked it up it said that minors can get vaccines in alabama but I called a doctor and they said they won’t give me vaccines without a parent or guardians consent.
I agree, looks like healthcare age of consent is 14 in Alabama. I’m not sure that means all providers must comply or not, and if it covers vaccines. Perhaps talk with another trusted adult or doctor, or the school nurse (maybe have to wait for the fall for that).
When are you going to college? Next year or in another year or 2? How old will you be when you go to college? Once you’re 18 you can do whatever you want.
Colleges will have vaccination requirements. I would think you’d be able to find them on each school’s websites. You will have medical forms you’ll have to have filled out and signed by a doctor. I would think if you are over the age of consent, which you are in your state, you would be able to find a doctor to vaccinate you, especially the older you get.
Here is the policy for U of Alabama:
https://www.ua.edu/about/policies/files/Health%20Requirement%20for%20Registration%20Policy.pdf
There is a procedure that you can follow to try to get a waiver.
You may want to contact your local county health department for help/advice.
http://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/immunization/
While a waiver may be an option, in my opinion that shouldn’t have to be the case because your guardian is imposing a situation that you don’t agree with on you.
Yes, do get these brought up to date when you can, and do get the coronavirus vaccine if/when it becomes available. You don’t want to catch any of this stuff if you can avoid it.
Code of Alabama 1975 Title 22, Chapter 8
So go to another doctor. It is your legal right to get vaccinated.
PS. The virus is SARS-CoV-2. While it is generally thought to have made the jump from animals to humans in the Wuhan province of China, illnesses are no longer called by the name of the area in which they arose. We do not, for example, call the swine flu “the American Flu”, even though it started here.
This is especially true since no medical researcher has called it “The Chinese Virus”. It was named so for purely political reasons, unlike the Spanish Flu or the West Nile virus. Let us not use terms that were created specifically to further somebody’s political agend.
The naming of the 1918 flu as the “Spanish” flu was somewhat political (since war is an extension of politics). Spain was neutral in World War I, so the lack of wartime censorship there compared to countries fighting the war (whose soldiers were passing the flu among themselves and between themselves and nearby civilians) meant that there was plenty of flu news in Spanish media but not other countries’ media.