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UVM Mandates ‘Emergency Use’
COVID Vax for All Students
By Guy Page, Vermont Daily
All University of Vermont students attending
classes this fall must be vaccinated for
COVID-19, although all vaccines remain authorized
for emergency use only, UVM said.
UVM announced earlier this year student
vaccination with unspecified eceptions
would be required of all students once Food
and rug dministration approval
had been given. Because that approval now
seems unlikely before net year, will
forge ahead with the vaccination mandate
under emergency use authorization, a college
spokesperson said.
“I have consulted with medical and public
health eperts at the university and in the
state,” said UVM President Suresh Garimella.
“The risk is simply too high to take chances
with COVID-19, especially with thousands of
our students coming from other states where
vaccination rates are lower than ours.”
Vermont leads the nation in vaccination
rates. Currently, 83 percent of residents have
had at least one dose of vaccine.
“A fully vaccinated student population on
our campus is the best way to continue to protect
the health of students, employees, and the
broader Burlington community against CO-
VID-19,” said Garimella. “And it is the most
effective way to ensure a vibrant campus eperience
for our students.”
The announcement of the Board of Trustees
ecutive Boards decision did not eplicitly
address FDA approval. Vermont Daily
asked UVM spokesperson Enrique Corredera
to clarify: “Will UVM students be required to
be vaccinated before FDA approval?”
Corredera replied, “That is correct. We
had anticipated full approval by this fall for
at least one of the vaccines available under
Emergency Use Authorization. Medical professionals
now epect that could be as late
as in early odays action builds on
the previous announcement given the nowetended
timeline for full approval”
Vermont State Colleges and private colleges
also have said they would require vaccination
pending FDA approval. It is unclear
whether they will follow s lead he
• • •
mandate does not etend to staff and
faculty, for reasons eplained to ermont
Daily by Corredera last month:
“Students on a college campus form a different
population with unique characteristics,”
Corredera said. “They come from states
all over the country with a wide range of vaccination
rates; They spend most of their time
on campus living in close quarters; and statistically
we have seen that vaccination rates in
this age group have been significantly lower
than in older populations. We are of course
encouraging faculty and staff members to get
vaccinated.”
Federal law requires that recipients of EUA
drugs “are informed of the option to accept
or refuseadministration of the product,” of the
consequences of refusal, and the alternatives
available.
hildrens ealth efense says federal law
requires individuals to whom the EUA product
is administered must be informed of:
significant known and unknown potential
benefits and risks of such use
• option to accept or refuse administration of
the product and the consequences if any of refusing
administration of the product, and
• alternatives to the product.
t least one mother says her child wont
be attending UVM due to the vaccination re-
uirement y senior a straight kid
has just crossed off UVM from her list of colleges,”
Alaina L. of Bennington County said.
“So much for keeping Vermonters here. Very
sad. We are so discouraged by the trampling
of personal liberty here. I will be reaching out
to UVM to state my opinion.” Her full name
is not printed because, she says, she fears repercussions
towards her child.
epects near-record enrollment, according
to news reports in May.
he legal arm of mericas rontline octors
is preparing a national lawsuit against
collegiate vaccination requirements and is
looking for concerned students attending universities
in Colorado, New York, Michigan,
and Pennsylvania. It is not known if the suit
will be epanded to other states
DFR Releases Report Examining COVID-19’s Financial
Impact on Vermont’s Health Insurance Marketplace
The Vermont Department of Financial
egulation released a report eamining
the financial impacts of COVID-19 on
ermonts commercial health insurance marketplace
to determine whether any consumer
premium relief is warranted.
The report focuses on the financial performance
of BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont
BB, P ealth Group P, the
ermont ducation ealth nitiative ,
and Cigna throughout the pandemic.
The report found COVID-19 mitigation
measures, such as the postponement of nonessential
medical and surgical procedures,
resulted in ecess profits for health insurers in
2020, however, as pandemic conditions
improved, much of the deferred medical care
returned resulting in potential losses in 2021.
The report found that only two market segments
had COVID-19 related profits when
reviewing 2020 and 2021 together at this
time pecifically, BBs edicare
upplement and ignas large group market
segments, which together totaled approimately
$2.2 million in COVID-19 related
profits. However, the report also concludes
that additional premium relief in these or
other market segments may be warranted in
the future.
“The pandemic caused severe disruption to
our daily lives including preventing
Vermonters from seeking non-essential medical
care at times even though they continued
to pay their health insurance premiums,” said
DFR commissioner Michael Pieciak. “It was
important to ensure Vermonters did not overpay
for commercial health insurance during
the pandemic, and we determined that in most
instances they did not, and where they did,
Vermonters would be receiving premium
relief.”
Pandemic mitigation measures also had
favorable financial impacts on providers of
other lines of insurance or eample,
previously approved $24 million in premium
relief for Vermont auto insurance policyholders
due to significant reductions in driving
during the pandemic and $3.2 million for
dental insurance policyholders due to pandemic
restrictions on routine dental care.
Regarding the health insurance premium
relief, igna has already returned approimately
$118,000 to its eligible large group
policyholders and DFR will require BCBSVT
to incorporate consumer relief totaling
approimately million in its upcoming
2022 Medicare Supplement filing.
DFR plans to review other 2022 Medicare
upplement filings and s upcoming
rate filing to determine if any additional
COVID-19 related rate relief is appropriate.
s report did not analyze employers
who provide health insurance through selfinsurance
as those plans fall under federal
jurisdiction.
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