[hcayless]

In this kind of context (residential university) where you’ll have a concentrated group of people living and working together and where the consequences of an outbreak would be extremely disruptive, I think it makes perfect sense.

[stri8ed]

The question is if/to what extent does the booster prevent transmission of Omicron. We already know its transmissibility is significant greater than prior variants. If the effect on transmissibility is small, this argument would not hold much weight.

There seems to be little relationship between percentage vaccinated and case-counts. Open to being proven wrong on this.

E.g. given total new cases today, California (30k new cases) has a higher number of cases per capita, vs Texas (15.5k), despite CA having 10% higher vaccination rate. Granted there are other variables at play, but its hard to make the case that vaccination has a large impact on transmission, currently.