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UChicago Hospital Employees Don’t Have to Get COVID-19 Booster Shot, but Students Do

Daniel SchmidtbyDaniel Schmidt
December 20, 2021
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UChicago Hospital Employees Don’t Have to Get COVID-19 Booster Shot, but Students Do

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The University of Chicago announced on December 20 that all students and employees “will need to submit proof of receiving a booster shot or apply for an approved exemption” by January 31, 2022. Yet in this same announcement, the university noted—without offering an explanation—that UChicago Medical Center employees and “clinically active faculty and staff in the Biological Sciences Division” will not be required to receive a vaccine booster.

It’s unknown why only these employees, who were required to get the COVID-19 vaccine, are exempt from the booster requirement. If the booster is as necessary for public health as the university claims, questions arise as to why more than 9,000 people, who regularly interact with sick and immuno-compromised patients, do not have to get it.

The university also advised students, who are now on winter break, to suspend “non-mission critical gatherings on campus, such as holiday parties” and to “avoid gatherings where public health compliance, importantly including masking requirements, or the prevalence of vaccination are unknown.” Students are also encouraged to test “before and/or after attendance” if they attend such gatherings.

When students return to campus in early January, they will be required to “remove [their] mask[s] for the shortest time possible” while eating and drinking, and they will no longer be permitted to lower their masks while speaking in class. Additionally, students who live in on-campus housing should anticipate “a period of mandatory weekly testing,” which was previously only required for unvaccinated students.

Update: Since the publication of this article, the University of Chicago has informed the Chicago Thinker that, “given the increasingly critical patient-care demand caused by the pandemic, and the staffing challenges faced by hospitals in Chicago and across the country, the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) has decided not to introduce additional COVID-19 vaccine mandates at this time for UCMC employees and clinically active BSD faculty and staff.”

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Daniel Schmidt

Daniel Schmidt

Daniel Schmidt is a University of Chicago freshman interested in studying Economics and History. Originally from Tennessee, he hopes to combat the contempt for Middle America that is common at elite universities.

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  1. Pingback: UChicago’s Nonsensical Mask Mandate Cruel to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing – The Chicago Thinker
  2. Matt Andersson says:
    1 year ago

    Ken Polonsky, MD, Dean of the UChicago Biological Sciences Division and President, UChicago Medicine health system, is fully briefed on Covid “vaccine” risk by its financial, political and technical underwriters, and understands it cannot be inherently justified, but safety and basic medical relevance, are not the object: money is. Risking further refusal of such forced injections from his medical staff, who also know of the risks and may resign in protest, cuts into profits in his hospital business which also receives an insurance premium for categorizing any infection, treatment, or fatality, as Sars-Cov derived; payment also rests on maintaining certain staffing levels–hence, he selectively backed off mandates. Student refusal rates are, on the other hand (inexplicably) low, and any tuition revenue loss nonexistent, as fresh compliant applicants from the pool, will replace protestors. It’s all about bucks; the rest is just conversation. ’96, Booth MBA

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