The bill from Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Montana) says that any of the more than 1,000 higher education institutions in the U.S. that "recklessly" require COVID shots would be forced to pay medical bills for students who suffer adverse reactions.
The congressman stated in an email to The College Fix just before Thanksgiving: "Thousands of Americans were injured due to vaccines being forced out of the lab, into public circulation, then prematurely mandated. My bill will not only make universities admit fault in recklessly forcing students to take the shot but will also make them financially responsible for the injuries they caused."
Rosendale's bill is called the "University Forced Vaccination Student Injury Mitigation Act of 2024."
In an interview with AFN, Matt Lamb, associate editor of The College Fix, referenced information that has come out since the COVID shot rollout.
"The main goal of this legislation appears to be to hold schools accountable for requiring students to get vaccinated against COVID – even though most college students, by virtue of their age and general health, are not at any real significant risk of adverse reactions to coronavirus," he explains.
"Furthermore, the vaccine safety advisor for the FDA has actually previously said that, at least for some of the COVID shots, men under 40 are at more of a risk from the vaccines than from the virus itself," Lamb adds. "So, [Rosendale] appears to be looking to hold these schools to account and perhaps also dissuade the remaining handful of colleges that continue to mandate the COVID vaccine."
As Lamb points out, the information has come from various sources, including healthcare leaders.
"So, while the universities may be able to claim that they were not fully aware of the side effects, they do know now that there are documented side effects, and it's also always been clear from March 2020 that young people were never at any significant risk from coronavirus."
The group No College Mandates identified in early November 16 U.S. colleges that still require the jab for students who enroll or live on campus: five each in California and Georgia, three in Pennsylvania, and one each in New Hampshire, Ohio, and Oregon.
