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Harvard University is keeping its requirement for students to have received the COVID-19 vaccination.<\/p>\n
Sixty-nine other schools also have the vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarvard requires all students who will be on campus to have some protection from COVID-19 through vaccination,\u201d reads a statement<\/a> from the university. \u201cThis may be through the initial primary series of COVID-19 vaccination or one of the most recent COVID-19 boosters. Vaccines must be FDA- or WHO-approved vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs we work to continue the high levels of vaccination needed to protect our community, Harvard highly recommends being up-to-date per the CDC definition for all Harvard community members, including faculty, students, staff, and researchers, who will have any on-campus presence.\u201d<\/p>\n No College Mandates tracked<\/a> colleges and universities across the United States that require a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n Some of the universities implementing vaccine mandates include St. Anselm College, Montclair State University, Rutgers University, Ohio Wesleyan College, Southwest University, Johns Hopkins University, and many others.<\/p>\n In 2021, former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams wrote an open letter<\/a> to higher education leaders, urging them to mandate COVID-19 vaccines. <\/p>\n \u201cInstitutions of Higher Education (IHEs), which employ over 3 million individuals and are attended by over 19 million students, must continue to pull together. College campuses, by their nature, are high-risk congregate settings for infectious disease transmission. People not protected by vaccines are becoming infected faster, from more limited contact,\u201d the letter read. \u201cThe Delta variant represents a more dangerous threat to your campus health and safety, operational continuity, and ability to meet the safety expectations of faculty, staff, students, and their parents. Last year\u2019s plan may not prevent outbreaks from this year\u2019s variant. Delta is different.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is why we, public health and science experts, leaders in health, education, and civil society, and former officials from both political parties, have come together to ask you to join us in taking further steps to maintain public health and safety, prevent spread, and keep your institutions open for student learning.\u201d<\/p>\n