Posted on 04/13/21
| News Source: CBS Baltimore WJZ
Johns Hopkins University will require all students who plan to be on campus in the fall be vaccinated or have religious or health exemption.
Faculty and staff are also “strongly urged” to be vaccinated before coming back to campus.
The university is in the process of establishing a system for JHU affiliates to register their vaccination status, which will aid decisions about the appropriate level of public health protections over the summer and fall.
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“Our plans are predicated on continuing public health strategies to promote a safe campus and community,” JHU President Ronald J. Daniels, Provost Sunil Kumar, and Interim Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Mary Miller wrote in a message over the weekend.
“Ensuring that the overwhelming percentage of our community’s population is vaccinated will greatly reduce the risk of the virus’s spread on our campuses and will also protect our neighbors in Baltimore.” they said.
The university said it will seek to facilitate opportunities for students who cannot get vaccinated in their home jurisdictions to be vaccinated as soon as they get to campus.
They said they are also working to make on-campus vaccination available for all of the Hopkins community. Read more at WJZ