COV19 boosters young adults, risk benefit assessment of mandates at universities

Full title is<p>&quot;COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities&quot;<p>From the article:<p>&quot;Risk-benefit estimates:<p>The figures display benefits and harms per million third doses administered: SAEs [Severe Adverse Events] (figure 1A), grade ≥3 reactogenicity (figure 1B) and myopericarditis (figure 1C). At this scale, and as shown in figure 1A, boosting young adults with BNT162b2 could cause 18.5 times more SAEs per million (593.5) than COVID-19 hospitalisations averted (32.0).&quot;

Just a short recap of some US universities mandates:<p><i>University of Notre Dame announces additional Covid-19 booster requirement</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ndsmcobserver.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;university-announces-additional-covid-19-booster-requirement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ndsmcobserver.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;university-announces-addit...</a><p><i>Harvard requires all students to be up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations including the bivalent Omicron-specific COVID-19 booster.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.harvard.edu&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;covid-19-vaccine-information&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.harvard.edu&#x2F;coronavirus&#x2F;covid-19-vaccine-informa...</a><p><i>Yale students will be required to get an updated, bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster by the start of the spring semester.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yalecollege.yale.edu&#x2F;get-know-yale-college&#x2F;office-dean&#x2F;messages-dean&#x2F;updated-covid-19-vaccine-booster-requirements" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yalecollege.yale.edu&#x2F;get-know-yale-college&#x2F;office-de...</a><p><i>Tufts University followed suit on Sept. 16, announcing it would require students, staff, and faculty to get the omicron vaccine booster by Dec. 2.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coronavirus.tufts.edu&#x2F;healthy-at-tufts&#x2F;covid-19-vaccinations-tufts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coronavirus.tufts.edu&#x2F;healthy-at-tufts&#x2F;covid-19-vacc...</a><p><i>With this recommendation, the University of California Vaccine policy now requires all staff and students to get the bivalent booster, when eligible</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;campusready.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;covid-vaccination" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;campusready.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;covid-vaccination</a><p><i>New York University (NYU) requires boosters for all students</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyu.edu&#x2F;life&#x2F;safety-health-wellness&#x2F;coronavirus-information&#x2F;covid-related-guidance&#x2F;covid-19-vaccine.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nyu.edu&#x2F;life&#x2F;safety-health-wellness&#x2F;coronavirus-...</a>

I really don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s appropriate to mandate SOME people but not OTHERS. If it&#x27;s necessary for public health make it mandatory. If it isn&#x27;t don&#x27;t. But forcing random groups to have it and letting others off is unfair and divisive.<p>I feel the same way about public school mandates: if all kids need it, make it all kids. Don&#x27;t exempt people based on if their parents are rich enough for private education!?

If the vaccine doesn&#x27;t stop infection or spread, and the virus is 99.998% survival for ages &lt;21, why do they need it again? It&#x27;s an honest question.