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Well it doesn’t particularly make sense but lots of policies around covid vaccines don’t make sense. I’m not convinced that making sense is really relevant.

I also wonder if I’m missing something here because as far as I’m aware the cost of getting a booster is feeling a bit rubbish for 0-2 days. Is it not normal for universities in the US to require (non-covid) vaccinations? I know my university required a bunch when I went up.

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Before COVID, as far as I'm aware not a single American university required annual flu shots to attend, which is the only kind of inoculation comparable to the COVID shots in terms of effectiveness against infection & transmission or the need for frequent ongoing injections.

Maybe not university wide but lots of programs like nursing and medicine required vaccines to participate prior to COVID. My mom needed to be update on her shots 30+ years ago while in nursing school. The pandemic is also a bit of a unique beast so it's understandable to make it campus wide.

Covid is about 10-14x more lethal than the flu (not to mention its other bad outcomes that don't kill you)

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