Two college students sued Santa Clara College over its COVID-19 vaccine booster shot requirement Monday.
The lawsuit mentioned sophomore Harlow Glenn, 20, agreed to get her first Pfizer COVID-19 shot final yr to adjust to the college’s vaccine mandate, however alleges she suffered numbing in her legs, extreme complications, menstrual cycle disruptions, bloody urine, physique pains and hair loss. The college, she mentioned, denied her requests for spiritual and medical exemptions from the pictures.
One other sophomore, Jackson Druker, 19, agreed to adjust to the preliminary vaccination requirement and hasn’t suffered a foul response, however doesn't need to take the extra threat of a booster shot, the lawsuit mentioned.
Each college students face disenrollment beneath college coverage in the event that they haven't obtained the required preliminary and booster pictures by March 17, the lawsuit mentioned.
“It’s unbelievable that SCU expects college students to take further doses of experimental merchandise once they already precipitated them hurt, simply to have the ability to proceed their faculty educations,” Glenn mentioned in an announcement from the regulation corporations dealing with the lawsuit. “I'm not keen to place my well being or life on the road like that once more.”
Santa Clara College had no instant response Monday.
The lawsuit was filed in Santa Clara County Superior Courtroom on behalf of the scholars and Youngsters’s Well being Protection-California, a nonprofit that has challenged different vaccine necessities, by attorneys for Info Regulation Fact Justice. It alleges negligence, breach of contract and emotional misery.
COVID-19 vaccine mandates for college students have been controversial however have had uneven success in courts.
A majority of energetic judges on the ninth U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals in January declined to reinstate a keep on San Diego Unified Faculty District’s vaccine requirement for college students age 16 and older whereas the case is pending.
Final August, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom denied a bid by eight Indiana College college students to dam the varsity’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement.
However the group behind the lawsuit towards Santa Clara College mentioned its authorized actions prevented Piedmont Unified Faculty District from imposing its vaccine mandate on youngsters as younger as 5 years outdated, and in getting Los Angeles Unified Faculty District to place off its scholar vaccine mandate till the autumn.