300+ Members of Boston College Community Demand COVID Booster Mandate Policy Recognize Natural Immunity

A group of more than 300 Boston College parents, students, alumni, faculty and staff this week signed a petition to the college’s president, Fr. William Leahy, opposing the administration’s recently instituted one-size-fits-all COVID-19 booster mandate.

The petition requests the college create rational “off ramps” to the policy to protect individuals with “hybrid immunity” and those with serologically verifiable evidence of robust COVID-19 antibody immunity.

This is the first community uprising at one of America’s elite universities against unsafe and unnecessary booster mandates.

This new mandate was issued even though more than 97% of that campus is already fully vaccinated by mandate — and despite the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not changed the definition of “fully vaccinated” to include a booster shot…. (Excerpts from The Defender)