1/ Many questions of late from parents and college students worried about mandatory or quasi-mandatory vaccinations - including why they can be mandated if they are not fully approved, and why having antibodies doesn't provide an exemption.

These are great questions...

2/ I don't fully understand how an unapproved medical product can be required, but so many colleges have done so they must have at least some legal guidance suggesting they can. Maybe a parent or student will sue and force the issue; as far as I know that has not happened yet.

3/ As for the antibodies, the colleges are behaving no differently - i.e. just as ridiculously - as anyone else. Most studies now suggest both that vaccine and natural immunity are roughly equivalent (in the short term, we'll see about longer term, natural may have the edge)...

4/ AND that giving a vaccine to someone who has recovered from #Covid and has antibodies against #sarscov2 does not improve their protection but DOES carry the risk of more severe side effects...

5/ The vaccine church was so desperate to make vaccinations a fait accompli that they ignored all this (and worse, the @who decreed natural immunity DID NOT COUNT towards herd immunity, an insane move). As with so many other decisions meant to stampede people, this one backfired.