Mon Jan 24, 2022 – 4:34 pm EST
BALTIMORE (LifeSiteNews) — Johns Hopkins University (JHU), one of the most prestigious medical schools in America, has announced it is intensifying its masking requirements for on-campus students, in a move critics interpret as betraying a lack of confidence in the student body’s status as almost entirely vaccinated for COVID-19.
“We will require the use of N95s, KN95s, or a combination of a cloth mask with a surgical mask,” the school announced January 14. “A cloth mask alone or a surgical mask alone will no longer meet the university’s mask requirement … We will distribute a variety of mask types at numerous locations around the university, on all campuses, beginning next week.”
As previously announced, the school also requires vaccinated students to receive booster shots by February 1 and “register it in the Vaccine Management System.” Students will be tested for COVID twice weekly, as well, and “test immediately upon their arrival” for the spring semester “and to quarantine in their rooms until they receive a negative result.”
The announcement cites as justification the high transmissibility of the omicron variant, while notably acknowledging “the near universal rate of vaccination
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