Last week, Governor Doug Ducey issued an executive order preventing the state’s universities from requiring students to be vaccinated for COVID-19. In early May, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law that prohibits businesses, schools and governments from requiring proof of vaccinations, and if they do, they can be fined up to $5,000 per incident.
Ducey’s announcement followed a message from Arizona State University reminding students that they would either have to be vaccinated before returning to in-person learning, or undergo seemingly non-stop testing (twice a week), daily health checks, and be forced to wear a mask on a nearly full-time basis.
Now, a group of physicians is asking if attending college is worth the risk of COVID-19 vaccines.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, cite the “800 reported cases of heart inflammation, now being investigated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as the source of their question and the “urgency” behind asking it.
The physicians offer the “poignant case” of a 19-year-old journalism student at Northwestern University, who died two months after receiving her first dose of the Moderna product as a example of a the vaccine risks. According to the Collegefix.com, “Simone Scott suffered from myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscles. Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s doctors were able to obtain a new heart for Scott, but that lasted less than one week.”
According to the physicians, “half the patients with a diagnosis of heart failure live less than 5 years. Even if heart damage is mild, the patient might not be able to participate in athletics or aspire to be a pilot, firefighter, or soldier, or to engage in any physically demanding occupation.”
“Another potential risk is infertility,” say the physicians. “This might not become apparent for years, as college students are generally postponing childbearing until they achieve educational or career goals. But an early warning signal is coming from, where eggs and sperm from previously successful donors are not producing viable embryos.”
The physicians believe that “having a significant fraction of our young people disabled or infertile is a truly existential risk.”
The physicians advised the universities of the objections from physicians, however, “hundreds of colleges are still insisting that students get the jab, even those already immune, who gain no conceivable benefit,” say the physicians.
The physicians fear that too many students will “take the shots, even against their better judgment, because of peer pressure, continued trust in the CDC, the belief that these genetically engineered products are no different from other vaccines, or the high cost of disrupting their career plans.”
“Since the purveyors of the products are protected from liability, all costs—even of death and disability—will be borne by students and their families,” note the physicians.