A new category of professional has joined the legal challenges to university vaccine mandates: doctors. University of California Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine psychiatrist and medical ethicist Aaron Kheriaty is suing the university system to recognize his natural immunity from COVID-19 recovery, and he’s getting help from fellow UC medical professors. Read the full article…

Todd Zywicki, a George Mason University law professor, sued school officials in early August over its vaccination policy and other Covid measures, saying that he shouldn’t have to comply because he’d already had Covid. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represented him, later said Zywicki had been given a medical exemption. Read the full article…

A Western Michigan University soccer player is defending her decision to not get the COVID-19 vaccine as she and some of her fellow teammates fight back against the school’s policy. The deadline to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for the plaintiffs fighting the vaccine mandates has passed. While the lawsuits rely on different arguments, similar cases…

Michigan State administrative associate and fiscal officer Jeanna Norris filed a lawsuit against MSU’s administration on Friday in relation to the university’s vaccine requirement. According to the case of Norris v. Stanley, Norris tested positive for COVID-19, and after recovering, she tested positive for antibodies. Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares

Michigan State University (MSU) employee sued over the school’s recently announced vaccine mandate, saying she has naturally acquired immunity to COVID-19 after recovering from the virus last year and doesn’t need the vaccine. Jeanna Norris is a supervisory administrative associate and fiscal officer at MSU, which has threatened disciplinary action, including termination, if employees do…

A major reason why many Americans remain unvaccinated is the belief that so-called natural immunity protects as well or better than immunity from vaccination. A professor at George Mason University recently filed a lawsuit against his employer alleging that because he recovered from covid-19, he should be exempted from the university’s vaccine mandate. Some physicians have argued that children…