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Virginia colleges mull legality of mandatory COVID vaccine
6 minutes Posted Apr 23, 2021 at 10:00 pm.
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Virginia universities plan a return to campuses in the fall, but there are questions if the COVID-19 vaccine can be mandated. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration only authorized the vaccine for emergency purposes, according to Lisa Lee, professor of public health at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. The vaccine does not yet have full FDA approval. The vaccine was authorized for emergency use, so people have to be given the choice to take it and be informed of the consequences if they don't, Lee said. "Many legal scholars have interpreted that as saying that people cannot be required to take...

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