Boston University joins Northeastern, other schools: Will require students and staff to get Covid-19 booster shots

Boston University announced contiguous it volition necessitate each students, professors, unit and different "affiliates" to amusement impervious they've gotten a Covid-19 booster changeable by Feb. 4.

In a campuswide e-mail, BU President Robert Brown wrote:

Many person asked what to expect erstwhile we instrumentality to field successful January, arsenic determination is increasing interest astir the interaction of the Omicron variant of the virus. There are galore unanswered questions astir the transmissibility of this caller variant, the effectiveness of vaccines successful combatting this variant, and the severity of the unwellness caused by Omicron, if it is contracted. We are intimately monitoring the rapidly evolving concern - utilizing our cognition and acquisition with the Delta variant arsenic a baseline—as caller accusation becomes available. And we volition set our readying arsenic needed.

Our judgment—based connected the astir existent accusation and the proposal of wellness professionals - continues to beryllium that the champion defence is vaccination. After consultation with our aesculapian experts, I consciousness it is important to instrumentality vantage of the accrued extortion offered by the vaccine boosters and simultaneously protecting ourselves from waning immunity.

We volition necessitate each members of our assemblage - students, faculty, staff, and affiliates - who are eligible (six months past completing their archetypal Moderna oregon Pfizer vaccination; 2 months past the Johnson & Johnson vaccination) to show that you person had the booster changeable by February 4 (or arsenic soon arsenic your eligibility allows).

BU Covid-19 dashboard.