Quinnipiac University Parents and Students Against Booster Mandate

Quinnipiac University Parents and Students Against Booster Mandate

Started
January 13, 2022
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President Olian and Quinnipiac Board of Trustees
Signatures: 1,090Next Goal: 1,500
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Started by Steph P

Dear President Olian and Quinnipiac Board of Trustees,

We are the concerned students, parents, alumni, faculty, and staff of Quinnipiac University. We are very appreciative of all the efforts Quinnipiac has taken in keeping students and the surrounding community safe during this pandemic.

We ask that Quinnipiac continue to consider  ALL  the latest data as it relates to the safety and efficacy of the novel Covid 19 vaccines and mandates thereof. This open letter is to express our strong opposition to Quinnipiac's recent Covid-19 booster mandate.

Especially with the new development of the Supreme Court blocking President Biden's vaccine mandates and ruling they are an overreach. 

With new data available about the vaccine and the virus, we urge you to rethink the “mandate” to a “recommendation” based on the factors outlined below.

We appreciate that the booster mandate, new procedures, and your concern for the spring term come from the good intentions to prevent severe illness. With any public health policy, many factors — scientific, ethical, and legal — must be considered and the risk/benefit must be weighed.

We are concerned that Quinnipiac, in issuing this booster mandate, has overlooked the recent and evolving scientific data regarding the vaccine and the virus that makes a booster mandate inappropriate and unnecessary, raising serious ethical and legal questions.

Based on CDC’s research,: “vaccinated people transmit  Covid-19  similarly to unvaccinated people”. The virus will continue to be transmitted among our highly vaccinated campuses. In a recent campus-wide email, Quinnipiac explicitly acknowledged that “Drawing on-trend lines seen in South Africa and the U.K., medical experts are hopeful that we will experience a   downward trend in Omicron infections later in January, especially after any surge attributable to New Year’s get-togethers declines.”

As so many students test positive, they are,  in essence, receiving a natural booster based on the very latest variants of the virus. And yet, Quinnipiac University is ignoring the natural immunity in these students and mandating a booster injection based on older variants, which Quinnipiac knows is ineffective at stopping the spread of Covid-19 in the Quinnipiac community.

This decision is counter to science and seems like it was made less to promote students’ health and more to achieve some other unstated goal of the administration. Otherwise, why require a booster injection that is ineffective, and potentially dangerous, for students who are naturally contracting and fighting off a virus that many scientists believe is becoming more endemic than pandemic?

A recent Israeli study, which “demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer-lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease, and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity.”

The latest scientific research shows that Covid-19 vaccine side effects such as myocarditis,  thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, menstrual cycle changes, and pericarditis are more common in young people than we think (see references 1-5 listed below***).

Recently, an Oxford-conducted study of men under the age of 40 demonstrated that the risk of myocarditis after one dose of mRNA exceeds the risk of myocarditis from actual Covid-19 infection. Even more alarmingly, the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) indicates that there were over 15,000 Covid-19 vaccine-related death cases in 2021, compared with the previous average of 158 vaccine-related deaths per year (Pre-Covid-19), in the context of a yearly total of 280 million injections and 70 different vaccines. This data shows that, compared to other vaccines, Covid-19 injections carry around 100 times the risk of death.

A report issued in December by the United Kingdom Health Security Agency suggests that the effectiveness of the COVID- 19 booster against symptomatic infections of the omicron variant wanes within 10 weeks, which is insufficient to get a student through to the end of the semester.

The World Health Organization (WHO), the infallible global authority on all things Covid, issued a report stating, “A vaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses of the original vaccine composition is unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable.”

A recent study published by the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology found a positive association between COVID vaccination and increased menstrual cycle length.

According to Diana Bianchi, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, “Nobody expected [the COVID vaccine] to affect the menstrual system because the information wasn’t being collected  in  the  early  vaccine studies.” The study raises additional unknown concerns, “questions remain about other possible changes in menstrual cycles, such as menstrual  symptoms,  unscheduled  bleeding, and changes in the quality and quantity of menstrual bleeding.”

According to the FDA’s statement on expanding eligibility for boosters to individuals 18 years of age and older, “Both Pfizer and Moderna are conducting post-authorization/post-marketing studies to assess known serious risks of myocarditis and pericarditis.” However, if students have already been boosted, a post-authorization study becomes obsolete.

The Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT) filed a formal request to the FDA for the expedited release of all data on the Pfizer vaccine under the Freedom of Information Act. Members of PHMPT include well-established professors in the relevant fields from  Yale, Brown, University of Maryland, UCLA, and other universities. The FDA denied this request, arguing the absence of a “compelling need.”

The FDA recently requested the courts to grant them a 55 year time period (year 2076) to publicly release their vaccine data. Despite the fact that within months both the vaccine and booster have been declared “safe and effective”.

Despite the lack of transparency, and the booster’s observed and potential adverse health effects, Quinnipiac is still forcing its students and employees to accept its risk-benefit analysis: that the booster is “preferable” to the risk of contracting COVID while unboosted. In so doing, our university unsafely denies us the right to evaluate the risk-benefit analysis for ourselves.

Why force such risks on our students when the rate of severe Covid-19 illness in the 16 to 40 year age group is exceedingly low? COVID has a survival rate of over 99.87% for individuals under the age of 65.

Newer variants appear to pose a near-zero risk of death for college students. Data now shows that the vaccine itself can pose more risk to young people than the virus itself, and repeated injections only increase those risks without any discernible reduction in the spread of the virus.

All of our students are individuals, each someone’s child with unique medical, psychological, and emotional needs. As the  CDC has recognized, “people aged 18-64 years who are at increased risk for COVID-19 exposure and transmission because of occupational or institutional setting may receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series, based on their individual benefits and risks” (emphasis added). With its blanket mandate, Quinnipiac seems to be interpreting eligibility as a directive, ignoring both the science and CDC’s own guidance regarding individual benefits and risks.

The CDC also states that “Everyone is still considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose in a two-shot series, such as the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as the J&J/Janssen vaccine.”

This mandate raises serious ethical issues. In addition to the risk of side effects and death, Quinnipiac’s injection mandate can trigger generational trauma in some students from intrusive, experimental, and other medically questionable procedures.

For many students, the coercive nature of a  third injection, after being told that they needed only two injections to attend Quinnipiac, is contributing to psychological distress and emotional disorientation about future academic, social, and professional potential. We are seeing staggering mental health problems on campus and beyond. At this point in the pandemic, after nearly two years of following constantly changing rules, we would do right by our students to give them control over whether they’d receive additional doses of the Covid-19 vaccine or not.

That is why we believe that the question of whether a student should receive a third (or fourth or fifth) booster must be answered individually by each student, in consultation with a medical professional or doctor, rather than by school administrators. A frequent booster shot causes harm to a person's natural immunity. 

Considering new data on the virus and the vaccine, the university may very well cause disability or death by imposing further vaccine requirements, and it will have to bear the responsibility.

Please do the right thing, and end this unnecessary and unethical mandate.

Quinnipiac community herein is requesting that Quinnipiac change the mandate for a Covid-19 booster to a recommendation for these reasons:

WE ASK that Quinnipiac refrain from declaring health mandates and taking away choice for its student body and the larger Quinnipiac community based on science that is not yet conclusive; that there are ongoing mRNA vaccine trials to date such as: A Study to Evaluate Efficacy, Safety, and Immunogenicity of mRNA-1273 Vaccine in Adults Aged 18 Years and Older to Prevent Covid-19

WE ASK Quinnipiac to recognize that the American Heart Association has posted “Abstract 10712: Observational Findings of PULS Cardiac Test Findings for Inflammatory Markers in Patients Receiving mRNA Vaccines” and “Expressions of Concern: Abstract 10712: mRNA

Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and Acute Coronary Syndrome Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: A Warning”. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.1 0712/ 

The AHA expresses its concern of a marked increase in the 5-year risk of the acute coronary syndrome (ACS), as measured by the standard PULS Cardiac Test (the  PULS  score)  for patients who have received an mRNA vaccine.

WE ASK  Quinnipiac recognize that this concern may be a  serious concern for those affected and to recognize that cardiac issues, from mRNA vaccines, disproportionately affects the age group which comprises the Quinnipiac student body.

WE ASK Quinnipiac to recognize that vaccine testing for efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity is typically a 10-15 year process, which includes long-term evaluation, thereby mandating a vaccine that was not afforded routine safe scientific standards creates an atmosphere of concern, fear, and even mistrust in the Quinnipiac administration.

WE ASK Quinnipiac to recognize that well-respected, long-time FDA scientists have recently resigned from the FDA this past fall 2021 for one reason: The issue of boosters in young adults. They cite that the government did not allow them to complete their studies and do their due diligence as it relates to the mRNA boosters in young adults before they announced the recommendation for boosters for all adults 18+. All agree that boosters are beneficial to older adults and immune- compromised.

WE ASK that Quinnipiac recognizes that its student body, faculty, and administration have full access to boosters, which they may feel is in their best interest for their age group(s) and risk categories, offering a safe environment for ALL.

WE ASK that Quinnipiac recognizes that those who do not feel safe getting a Covid-19 booster should be afforded the same opportunity to feel safe attending Quinnipiac and in their own medical decision as it relates to their own bodies.

WE ASK Quinnipiac to consider the entire population of its student body and community and create an inclusive environment in which ALL students and community members can feel safe. The Quinnipiac community is diverse and we ask that Quinnipiac celebrate that diversity and avoid putting a portion of its students and community in the position of feeling unsafe. An environment in which a student feels that they must either end their Quinnipiac career or undergo ongoing weekly testing or take a chance of the possibility of health consequences from a novel vaccine with unknown long-term effects, as well as the possibility of known short-term effects (myo/pericarditis)  which are not negligible in their age group according to the CDC, effectively puts these students in an environment which makes them feel wholly unsafe attending Quinnipiac.

WE ASK that Quinnipiac recognizes that while some students/community members may benefit from a novel Covid-19 vaccine (a diabetic), other students/community members may have more risk from a novel Covid-19 vaccine (person with heart issues/at higher risk for heart issues). We ask that Quinnipiac does not act as a physician to a student body and community it does not attend to.

WE ASK that Quinnipiac recognize that a portion of the student body and community has had Covid-19 and that recent science tells us that these individuals are at least as protected and likely better protected than the vaccinated; that a recent, large (10x larger than US studies) Israeli study found that those who are vaccinated without previous infection “had a 13.06 fold increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected when the first event (infection or vaccination) occurred during January and February 2021. The increased risk was significant for symptomatic disease as well… SARS- CoV-2-naive vaccines were also at a greater risk for Covid-19- related-hospitalizations compared to those that were previously infected.” Comparing SARS-CoV-2 Natural Immunity to Vaccine-Induced Immunity: Reinfections vs Breakthrough Infections

***MORE INFORMATION

1. Intravenous injection of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine can induce acute myopericarditis in mouse model (Clin Infect Dis 2021 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34406358/

2. The S1 protein of SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood-brain barrier in mice (Nature Neuroscience 24, 368-378.)

3. SARS-CoV-2 spike impairs DNA damage repair and inhibits V(D)J recombination in vitro (Viruses 2021, 13 (10), 2056; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34696485/

4. Be aware of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: There is more than meets the eyes (J Biol Regul Homeost Agents May-Jun 2021)

5. Risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection (Nature Medicine 2021 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf/

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