The University of California has announced that a flu shot will be required for "all members of the UC community".
According to UC officials, the executive order states all staff, faculty and students will need to be vaccinated by November 1.
The new order comes as a preventative measure to ease the overlap of COVID-19 with the flu.
The UC statement said: “The executive order is an important proactive measure to help protect members of the UC community — and the public at large — and to ameliorate the severe burdens on health care systems anticipated during the coming fall and winter from influenza and COVID-19 illnesses.”
The UC system says it already has a policy on immunizations for students and that this order will include flu shots into that policy.
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