Amir Attaran and Jacob Shelley: By not requiring COVID-19 vaccination like the world’s top institutions, Canada’s universities are making themselves the dunces of COVID-19
But there is no disagreement among the very best, and of the top 10 American universities, all 10 require everyone be fully vaccinated.
Western University President Alan Shepard is more vocal than most about why his institution refuses to implement a campus-wide vaccine mandate . He But rather than plan in a timely way as American institutions did—the University of California system, which is the world’s largest, launched its mandatory vaccine policy
We got a similar answer from Universities Canada, the umbrella group of higher education. It says that Canadian universities “are monitoring the trajectory of the pandemic and vaccinations with great interest so they can adapt policies”—which is just a fancy way of saying that the plan is to kick the can down the road.
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