this juncture already.
It very clearly does not prevent transmission, though it certain can be of individual benefit. It clearly comes with risk factors as well…as all vaccines do. ND is a private university and can do what they want here, but I suspect there will be some pretty stout pushback on this at this point and in this age group given the data. The argument that giving the vaccine to the healthy, young students is to protect the older faculty members with risk factors no longer holds water.
Anecdotally, my fully vaccinated child got COVID at ND while on campus under their tight guidelines….the only person in our family to get it. It’s going to happen regardless. The severity is mitigated in “at risk” people with the vaccine though it is extremely likely to have been of no significant help to my healthy child.
If it’s required, she will just do it. But again, my bet is that this gets quietly changed in the next several months.