The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/vaccines/)
With an influx of sick students over the past few weeks, Cornell Health has struggled to provide as many appointments as requested, while students face difficulty in keeping up with classes while sick.
Since the CDC authorized all adults to receive booster shots, Cornell community members can sign up at a variety of locations across Ithaca.
Tompkins County kids are starting to receive COVID-19 vaccines following the FDA’s authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric vaccine for 5 to 11 year-olds.
As Cornellians prepare for a fully in-person semester, some international students say they are struggling to meet the University’s requirement for students to receive an FDA-approved vaccine before arriving on campus this August.
Cornell takes a conservative approach toward abolishing COVID safety guidelines, requiring conditional mask-wearing and distancing for students and faculty even as New York State ends all restrictions.
Over the four-day wellness break, hundreds of Cornellians stopped watching their favorite shows or hanging out with friends, flocking to Bartels Hall to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Some of this numbness is the result of excess. I remember many of my semesters at Cornell were filled with attempts to maximize experiences: I took as many classes as I could and joined as many clubs as my schedule could fit. I don’t expect my specific brand of overenthusiastic frenzy to have been universal, but the belief that quantity determined the quality of my experiences ironically ended up restricting what I could take away from each one.
As college students flock to vaccination sites across upstate New York, some students in Tompkins County saw their plans fall apart Tuesday — the local health department canceled its College Student Vaccination Day that planned to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
In a town hall following the University’s announcement to mandate vaccinations for students returning to campus in the fall, the administration further discussed their plans for the upcoming fall semester.
The University will participate in the Tompkins County Health Department and Cayuga Medical Center “College Student Vaccination Day” for students from Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College at the Shops at Ithaca Mall vaccination site.