CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - Students, staff and faculty in the University of Illinois system will be required to get a COVID-19 booster shot once they are eligible for a shot.
School President Tim Killeen announced the policy Thursday in a mass email, saying that "there is now significant evidence that vaccinations plus boosters are effective at preventing infections from developing into serious illness."
Killeen says members of the campus community who already had medical or religious exemptions from the university's COVID-19 vaccine requirement will still be exempted from the new booster requirement.
The university gave no deadline for the booster requirement.