WORCESTER – Some local colleges are reporting they are at or nearing the campus vaccination targets they had set earlier this year, with the deadline to get shots in time for the upcoming academic year either already past or approaching.
The reward for those students and staff will likely be a return to pre-pandemic conditions on campus, and the retirement of the social distancing and masking requirements of last year.
But some college officials said even with the vast majority of their populations vaccinated, worsening virus trends over the coming weeks could result in a return to those measures.
“We’re trying to establish what the thresholds would be” for that scenario, said David Chearo, vice president of planning and strategic initiatives at Clark University, who acknowledged the “way the community feels about” going back to some restrictions would be one of the factors considered.
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