Va. colleges change COVID policies after Youngkin executive order

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Va. colleges change COVID policies after Youngkin executive order

Will Vitka | [e-mail]

January 19, 2022, 8:19 AM

Several Virginia colleges changed their policies after Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order rescinding the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all state employees.

Virginia Commonwealth University, James Madison, Virginia Tech and the College of William & Mary have now announced they’ll comply with the governor’s directive — and will no longer require employees to be vaccinated or tested weekly, Richmond.com reported.

In a statement, James Madison cited Youngkin’s order, saying “there is no longer a requirement for employees to receive a vaccination, report their vaccination status or undergo weekly screening testing.”

Virginia Tech did the same in its policy update. ... The schools continued to encourage that everyone get vaccinated.

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Will Vitka
William Vitka is a Digital Editor and reporter for WTOP.com. He's been in the news industry for over a decade. Before joining WTOP, he worked for CBS News, Stuff Magazine, The New York Post and wrote a variety of books—about a dozen of them, with more to come.

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[Walleye]

1. Weenies!!

[Botany]

2. After seeing the success of Abbott in TX and DeSantis in FL spreading the disease to hundreds of ...

.... thousands I guess Youngkin doesn't want VA to be left behind.

Want to win in a landslide in 22 & 24?

The republican party is pro pandemic and is killing people.

The republican party is pro TFG and he is traitor to America.

Joe Biden is the best President of our live time. Time to have his back.

BTW There are more of us then they're are of them GOTV and don't spend
1 second trying to get the vote of somebody whose 1st thought in the AM
is about their gunz or arbortion or CRT. Their votes are gone anyway.

[jimfields33]

4. Florida is in the orange now.

We are on the other side of the serge. Many states are still deep red.

[Busterscruggs]

3. The backslide

Has begun. Elections have consequences...in this case it appears to be death

[underpants]

5. They're just complying with the EO

They have to. It’s not really like they don’t already know who’s who in terms of vaxxing.
They are still wearing masks, Zoom calling, and keeping distance as much as possible.

Several school districts have already gave him a big middle finger saying masks are staying.