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Student Mental Health Is Worse During COVID-19 June 11, 6:17 a.m. Another study has found that student mental health worsened during the pandemic, The Washington Post reported. In the study, researchers tracked 217 students who were freshmen in 2017. Prior to the pandemic, students’ stress levels rose and fell, usually in tandem with midterm and final exams. Since the onset of
UConn’s governing board decided Friday that students must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before heading back to campus in the fall.
“This board, and the leadership of the university, take the health and safety of our community, including our student population, very, very seriously,” said Dan Toscano, chairman of the Board of Trustees. “And to that end, we felt it was important to consider whether or not COVID-19 vaccinations should not just be recommended, as they have been, but required in order to reduce the risk of transmission among students.”
UConn will require students to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 for the fall 2021 semester, the university’s Board of Trustees decided in a vote Friday afternoon, and the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system is “strongly considering a vaccine requirement,” said a spokesperson.