Did you get all of your other vaccines because you were peer pressured to do so? Or to prevent communicable diseases? To answer your question I highly doubt that it is a requirement for admission anywhere, however all schools are going to require a copy of your vaccine records not just of COVID, which you will have to complete after admission. With surges in COVID numbers who knows if COVID vaccines will be required, but I assume they will be.
THIS^^^^^. If you are American, you have been forced to subject yourself to a whole bunch of vaccines to be allowed to attend grade school, middle school, high school, college, etc.
Med school will be no different. You can rest assured that the vaccines will be fully approved by this time next year, and that if the pandemic is still a thing (and there is no reason to think it won't be), you should expect to meet whatever admission requirements are established by whatever school you are accepted to, including COVID vaccinations, or to not be allowed to enroll.
Period. Full stop. Personal freedom and political arguments aside, if being allowed to attend medical school is not a sufficient justification to protect yourself and others from a highly communicable, deadly virus, then being a doctor is probably not as important to you as you think. More importantly, no school would want to train you to enter the profession if you are so set on putting your own wants and beliefs ahead of the science and ahead of protecting yourself, patients and colleagues.
Edit -- maybe FL schools won't have a mandate, depending on how the lawsuit between the state and one of the cruise lines pans out.
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@wysdoc knows, even hospitals in a place as conservative as TX are requiring employees to be vaccinated. It's inconceivable that med students would be exempt.
