Effect of mandating vaccination on COVID-19 cases in colleges and universities

Ghaffarzadegan, Navid

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2022.08.004

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“…In particular, Lee et al (2022) found that employer-enforced vaccination mandates (vs. no mandates) were associated with higher and more equitable vaccination uptake across sociodemographic groups among health-care personnel. Ghaffarzadegan (2022) found that the introduction of vaccination mandates (vs. no mandates) in colleges and universities substantially decreased COVID-19 cases in institutions of higher education by an average of 1,473 per 100,000 students, consistent with the effectiveness of vaccination mandates. Rather than just looking at how vaccination mandates in colleges affected the student body, Acton et al (2022) examined how college-enforced COVID-19 vaccination mandates (vs. no mandates) also influence the health of the surrounding community.…”

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Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination

Fayaz-Farkhad,

Jung

2023

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Faced with the challenges of motivating people to vaccinate, many countries have introduced policy-level interventions to encourage vaccination against COVID-19. For example, mandates were widely imposed requiring individuals to vaccinate to work and attend school, and vaccination passports required individuals to show proof of vaccination to travel and access public spaces and events. Furthermore, some countries also began offering financial incentives for getting vaccinated. One major criticism of these policies was the possibility that they would produce reactance and thus undermine voluntary vaccination. This article therefore reviews relevant empirical evidence to examine whether this is indeed the case. Specifically, we devote separate sections to reviewing and discussing the impacts of three major policies that were implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic: vaccination mandates, vaccination passports, and the provision of financial incentives. A careful analysis of the evidence provides little support that these policies backfire but instead can effectively promote vaccination at the population level. The policies are not without limitations, however, such as their inability to mobilize those that are strongly hesitant to vaccines. Finally, we discuss how policy-level interventions should be designed and implemented to address future epidemics and pandemics.

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Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination

Fayaz-Farkhad,

Jung

2023

Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…And this paper analyzes the EU and EUI changes of different types of campus public buildings at different stages during the epidemic in real time by interpreting the restriction policies of the government and schools, especially analyzing the link of joining the analysis before and after the epidemic, and studying the impact of electricity consumption of various types of campus public buildings before and after the epidemic in a more comprehensive way, which has important reference significance for the government in formulating campus restriction measures and energy saving policies under similar climatic conditions. Although it is partly indicated that the popularity of vaccines has eased the epidemic situation in schools and other institutions [55] , the virus is still mutating, and people may be restricted by other activities in the future. Therefore, the opening hours or energy restrictions of buildings should be appropriately adjusted according to the changing patterns of energy consumption of different building types during the epidemic to ensure that more energy-efficient policy measures are developed in the face of similar situations.…”

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Impact of the COVID-19 on electricity consumption of open university campus buildings – The case of Twente University in the Netherlands

Cheng

Huang

et al. 2023

Energy and Buildings

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“…Some counties in the United States implemented vaccination mandates for colleges and universities. In the study of Ghaffarzadegan [16], the effect of this mandate was evaluated and they reported that mandating vaccination decreased cases by 1,473 cases per 100,000 student population (95% CI: 132 -2813), indicating that a COVID-19 vaccine requirement can indeed have a positive effect to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases in higher education settings.…”

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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 passes and mandates on disease transmission, vaccination intention, and uptake: A scoping review

Natalia,

Delporte,

De Witte

et al. 2023

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Purpose: Policymakers have struggled to maintain SARS-CoV-2 transmission at levels that are manageable to contain the COVID-19 disease burden while enabling a maximum of societal and economic activities. One of the tools that have been used to facilitate this is the so-called "COVID-19 pass". We aimed to document current evidence on the effectiveness of COVID-19 passes, distinguishing their indirect effects by improving vaccination intention and uptake from their direct effects on COVID-19 transmission measured by the incidence of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Methods: We performed a scoping review on the scientific literature of the proposed topic covering the period January 2021 to September 2022, in accordance with the PRISMA-ScR guidelines for scoping reviews. Results: Out of a yield of 4,693 publications, 45 studies from multiple countries were retained for full-text review. The results suggest that implementing COVID-19 passes tends to reduce the incidence of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths due to COVID-19. The use of COVID-19 passes was also shown to improve overall vaccination uptake and intention, but not in people who hold strong anti-COVID-19 vaccine beliefs. Conclusion: The evidence from the literature we reviewed tends to indicate positive direct and indirect effects from the use of COVID-19 passes. A major limitation to establishing this firmly is the entanglement of individual effects of multiple measures being implemented simultaneously.

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Effect of mandating vaccination on COVID-19 cases in colleges and universities

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination

Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination

Impact of the COVID-19 on electricity consumption of open university campus buildings – The case of Twente University in the Netherlands

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 passes and mandates on disease transmission, vaccination intention, and uptake: A scoping review

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