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De Anza College offers free flu vaccines

Bhuvaneshwari Natarajan, Staff Reporter | October 29, 2019

De Anza Health Services hosted a free flu vaccine clinic for students and faculty, with around 300 students receiving the vaccine. The clinic was organized over a span of four days on Oct. 16 and 17...

Debate: Must De Anza students be vaccinated?

Mehek Kapur and Dylan Newman | June 18, 2019

Con – Requiring Vaccinations: Yet another form of discrimination

Dylan Newman, Staff Reporter | May 16, 2019

Requiring vaccinations for admission to De Anza College would discriminate against financially disadvantaged students and those with adverse reactions to vaccines. According to a 2017 U.S. census estimate,...

Pro – Immunizations necessary for student safety

Mehek Kapur, Staff Reporter | May 16, 2019

De Anza currently allows U.S. students to enroll without having completed vaccinations. However, with recent outbreaks of measles rapidly spreading across the country, the college should consider revising...

Measles outbreak causes outrage

Adam Del Rio, Staff Writer | February 18, 2015

Rumors and horror stories of vaccine side-effects spread faster than the illnesses themselves. The time to drop silly precautions is now, before it’s too late. Parents across the U.S. are blaming...