{"id":143342,"date":"2021-06-08T12:17:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T22:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=143342"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T01:06:38","slug":"students-encouraged-to-get-vaccinated-uh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/08\/students-encouraged-to-get-vaccinated-uh\/","title":{"rendered":"Students encouraged to &lsquo;Get Vaccinated <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>!&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/system-i-got-vaccinated.jpg\" alt=\"Get Vaccinated UH, I did!\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-134309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/system-i-got-vaccinated.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/system-i-got-vaccinated-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/system-i-got-vaccinated-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> continues to encourage students to get fully vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus before the start of the fall semester. The regular communications is part of the &ldquo;Get Vaccinated <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr>!&rdquo; awareness campaign launched in March.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/21\/covid-vaccination-required-spring-2022-registration\/\">COVID-19 vaccination required for spring registration<\/a>,<br \/>September 21<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;There is a COVID-19 vaccine dose waiting for you!&rdquo; proclaimed a June 8 message to students at <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s 10 campuses that also encouraged students to get fully vaccinated before August 1. The message included information on how to find a convenient location and win prizes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaccines.gov\/search\/\">Enter your zip code<\/a> for a list of COVID-19 vaccine locations in pharmacies near you<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiicovid19.com\/vaccine\/\">Go the &ldquo;Locate a vaccination site&rdquo;<\/a> to find all vaccination sites across the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.higotvaccinated.com\/\">Register for prizes<\/a>, courtesy the State of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/17\/uh-to-require-covid-19-vaccination\/\">announced on May 17<\/a> that the COVID-19 vaccination has been added to the student health clearance requirements beginning in the fall 2021 semester. The requirement will take effect after at least one of the three COVID-19 vaccines currently under emergency use authorization has been approved and fully licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is anticipated this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Students without qualifying exemptions will be required to be vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus in order to engage in in-person, on campus classes and activities during the fall 2021 semester.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/covid19\/vaccinate\/requirement-students-faqs\/\">Student vaccination <abbr>FAQ<\/abbr>s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at <abbr>UH<\/abbr>\u2019s 10 campuses are encouraged students to get fully vaccinated before August 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[1411,1469,1416,61,62,63,64,65,71,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-143342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-get-vaccinated-uh","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151821,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143342\/revisions\/151821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}