Don't remember volunteering to participate in a vaccine trial?
If you're a student at either American University or Georgetown University, you have now!
Both American University and Georgetown University are updating their vaccination requirements to include the Covid vaccines.
No big deal, you're already required to be vaccinated against the measles and mumps, so really, nothing to see here, just updating some paperwork, totally standard stuff.
Still concerned? Rest assured, the vaccines have been approved by the FDA under an EUA and there is no reason for you to wonder what an EUA is.
Wait, you do? Okay, fine, but keep in mind this is very technical medical stuff you probably won't understand.
What is an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)?
An Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) is a mechanism to facilitate the availability and use of medical countermeasures, including vaccines, during public health emergencies, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. Under an EUA, FDA may allow the use of unapproved medical products, or unapproved uses of approved medical products in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions when certain statutory criteria have been met, including that there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives.
Okay, okay, so they aren't approved approved. But it's not like anything could go wrong.
You have to understand, that's very rare.
Also, you didn't see that.
You know what else is rare?
Dying from Covid if you're 18 to 29.
It's possible to die from it if you're college-aged, of course, but then again it's more possible to die from pneumonia.
You might be thinking that given that this is a vaccine that has literally not yet been approved, using novel technologies, and that younger people are at the least risk, this should probably be something that could maybe be best left to individual choice.
You need to stop thinking that.
You're just confused, you see, the authorities "don't look at this as a liberty thing."
Besides, it's not as if you're being forced to take the vaccine, you're just being told you can't get an education if you don't.
That's kind of like a choice.
Kind of.
