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Universities Receive Incentives for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: Federal Government Money Favors
More than 1000 US colleges and universities mandate Covid-19 vaccines for students as a condition of enrollment. Of these, 325 mandate boosters. Mandates were imposed in mid-2021, and justified as necessary to stop the campus spread of Covid-19 and keep students and more vulnerable members of the community safe. There is no evidence that colleges conducted an independent risk-benefit analysis before imposing mandates.
They appear to have relied solely on flawed guidance from public health institutions.
The mandates are insupportable. The otherwise healthy student is at essentially zero risk from serious illness or death from infection, and the shots do not prevent community spread as we were originally led to believe by the CDC.
Most importantly, the shots carry risk of serious harm to the student age group, which is reason enough to end mandates.
Student injuries and deaths have occurred, yet colleges have not acknowledged or investigated them.
Why continue these harmful policies? At No College Mandates, we suspect a number of reasons, including the following: financial incentives, solicitation of favor from governmental and corporate entities, the use of subjects for data collection, and institutional laziness. We intend to examine all in subsequent essays. In this part, we will focus on favors from the Federal Government.
The examination of all colleges is beyond the scope of this essay, so we will focus on the institutions of the Ivy League – all of which mandate Covid-19 vaccination and have employed strict testing and other mitigation efforts – to illustrate the magnitude of federal money that flows to colleges. We will also examine participation in the White House College Vaccine Challenge as a vehicle for colleges to curry government favor.
In 2021 alone, the eight colleges of the Ivy League – all considered “private” – received a staggering amount of $3.8 billion dollars from the Federal Government.
This is more or less in-line with recent years, though slightly higher due to the Department of Education’s Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) for Covid-19.
Of the $3.8 billion, 68% was granted from the Department of Health and Human Services, two of the eleven operating divisions are the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health – neither is a remotely disinterested party on the subject of Covid-19 vaccination. The CDC’s role in Covid-19 shot promotion needs no comment here.
The NIH is an enthusiastic promoter of mass Covid-19 vaccination across all age groups and is a joint patent holder with Moderna for the Covid-19 mRNA technology, from which it stands to benefit. The Fauci-headed National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is part of the NIH. To be clear, most HHS funding has nothing to do with Covid-19 research or policies directly. However, imagine being the recipient of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in HHS grants each year and having long-standing relationships with employees of the NIH and the CDC. Would you not be inclined to mandate the Covid-19 shot for all of your stake-holders? Would you not be inclined to follow all CDC recommendations without question?
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