Fri May 6, 2022 – 12:27 pm EDT
SCHENECTADY, New York (LifeSiteNews) A private college in New York expelled a sophomore student after she refused to get a COVID-19 injection due to past negative reactions to it.
Union College informed Diamond “Ellie” Puentes on April 13 she could no longer attend the college after it denied her request for a medical exemption from the booster shot requirement. The Chicago Thinker, a conservative publication at the University of Chicago, first reported the story on April 28.
“A day after receiving the second dose [in September 2021], she became sick, experiencing congestion, coughing, and a sore throat,” the news site reported. “Less than ten days later, she started vomiting and having diarrhea. She also had a sharp pain in her upper abdomen.”
Documents Puentes provided to the Chicago Thinker show that she provided the college with copies of her hospital discharge papers from the time she spent in the hospital after receiving a second Pfizer jab.
The college’s Wellness Center director Angela Stefanatos told Puentes there is “no evidence in the literature that vaccination for [COVID] weakens the immune system.” Stefanatos denied her request for an exemption, first on
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