While many colleges in the Boston area do not require the bivalent COVID booster, which protects against the original virus and the predominant omicron variants, they are encouraging students to get it:
are requiring students get the bivalent booster in order to enroll for classes next semester – but they’re in the minority.
“As a University, we wanted to offer bivalent boosters ahead of the colder months and holiday season with the expected increase in indoor gatherings,” said Colin Riley, a BU spokesperson, in an email to WBUR. Some students who visited the clinic said they wanted to stay up to date with their vaccines.
Some campuses in the U-Mass system, including Amherst and Boston, only require the primary COVID vaccine series for students butEd Gavaghan, a spokesperson for Northeastern, said via email the school has no plans to require the second booster and that it “has consistently followed scientific data and public health requirements to maintain safe and open campuses throughout the pandemic.”
“If COVID does what we think it’s going to do and what it’s done in the past, there very well may be an increase and potential surging into the winter,” said Dr. Estevan Garcia, medical director at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
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