4,000+ Sac State Students Miss School’s COVID-19 Vaccination Proof Deadline

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — More than 4,000 Sacramento State students person not met the school’s caller COVID-19 vaccine certification deadline, officials say.

Monday was the deadline for students and employees to supply impervious they person been vaccinated.

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Like galore colleges astir California, Sac State implemented a COVID-19 vaccine request for the autumn semester. Students and employees either request to amusement they person received 1 of the approved COVID-19 vaccines, oregon amusement an due aesculapian oregon spiritual exemption.

Students who inactive program connected accessing field but don’t person the vaccine volition request to tested for COVID-19 weekly, officials say.

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Officials didn’t person nonstop numbers arsenic of Monday, but noted that they had sent emails to much than 4,000 students who didn’t conscionable the certification deadline.

With the school’s full enrollment typically hovering astir 30,000, this means that astir 13 percent of students didn’t marque the deadline.

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While Monday was the deadline, Sac State officials person said that students who person not certified their vaccination presumption – and miss their play testing, if they person an exemption – volition beryllium disenrolled from their in-person classes starting Sept. 27.

CBS13 Staff