By Eli Walsh
Bay City News Foundation
California State University schools will require all faculty, staff and students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 if they plan to attend a CSU campus during the fall 2021 term, the university system said Tuesday.
CSU officials chose to issue the requirement before the vaccines are formally approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because of evolving circumstances.
However, public health officials have underscored the vaccines safety, noting that nearly 4 billion doses have been administered worldwide, substantially limiting serious COVID-related illness and death among vaccinated populations particularly in the U.S.
CSU Chancellor Joseph Castro cited the ultra-contagious delta variant as one reason the university system will require the vaccine to protect CSU students and employees.
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Like colleges nationwide, California universities are beginning to reveal whether they ll require students to be vaccinated if they want to return to campus in the fall.
Chico State told its students this month that those wishing to live in the dorms in the fall, as well as student athletes, will be required to have a COVID-19 vaccination. Cal State Long Beach will require proof of vaccination by June 1 from students wishing to live in the dorms in the fall.
Cal State Fullerton is taking the opposite approach.
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Sara Kyser is vice president of Acquired Brain Injury Programs for the Mental Health Association, a nonprofit that serves the Greater Springfield Area.
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MHA provides residential and day programs for those who have been impacted by a severe brain injury, and were assessed by a skilled nursing facility for state referral to such programs. The brain controls body functions so this impact may mean issues with communication, muscle coordination, irritability among the physical, cognitive and behavioral changes seen, that could be temporary or permanent, depending on the cause.