If I were the parent of a college age student I would have serious concerns about a university making it mandatory. If the only vaccines available we’re Pfizer and Moderna. As we have discussed, the mRNA technology has never been utilized in delivering a vaccine. One of our daughters actually attempted to be a part of the Pfizer clinical study but was excluded because she is planning to get pregnant in the next year.
It is a personal choice, so I have a particular problem with university making that choice for my child. If they are healthy with no comorbidities, their risk of being hospitalized or dying from the virus is minuscule. And let’s remember, these drugs are still essentially in a phase 1 clinical trial. This is a live clinical study right now where normally a drug would never be released at this time until there was more safety and efficacy data available.