Vaccination Updates News Archive

As announced in an e-mail message last week, higher education institutions in West Virginia MAY be receiving COVID-19 vaccine for students before the end of this semester. This is a follow-up message to give students who missed the initial message or who have changed their minds about getting the COVID-19 vaccine an opportunity to sign

Marshall University health and safety officials were notified earlier today that higher education institutions in West Virginia MAY be receiving COVID-19 vaccine for students before the end of this semester. We have been asked to survey our students about their willingness to receive the vaccine IF IT IS OFFERED. If you are a current student

Marshall University health and safety officials have just been informed that the university may be receiving additional COVID-19 vaccine for employees—above the amount requested in January based on responses to the first three surveys. This is a follow-up message to give employees who may have missed the other surveys or who have changed their minds about getting the

This is an update on employee COVID-19 vaccination efforts at Marshall University. A total of 1,793 Marshall employees requested vaccination through the three surveys in December and earlier this month. As of today, the university has received enough vaccine to give the first dose to 838 employees and students enrolled in clinicals this semester. This

Shortly before noon today, we were notified by the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission that tomorrow (Friday) is the deadline to make a final request for COVID-19 vaccine for our employees. If you are not yet on the list and want to be vaccinated, you must visit this link to be added to the

Vaccination Status Update The university has received its first two weekly allotments of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and has been able to vaccinate 448 of the 1,200+ Marshall employees who have indicated an interest. Depending on the actual amount of vaccine allotted to us, we anticipate vaccinating the following numbers of people in the next

Vaccine Update From the first two surveys conducted before the holiday break, more than 1,200 Marshall employees have indicated their interest in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. The university received its first allotment of vaccine last week and on Dec. 30 administered 277 doses of the Moderna vaccine to employees. We were able to do this

The university is conducting a second COVID-19 survey to give Marshall employees who missed the first survey another opportunity to indicate their willingness and desire to receive a vaccination after the first of the year. If you did not respond to the first survey earlier this month and want to receive a vaccination, please respond to this second

Thank you to everyone who completed the COVID-19 vaccine interest survey last week. We are aware the short turn-around for the requested information caused some employees to miss the opportunity to complete the survey. We were informed late last Thursday morning that higher education institutions would be receiving vaccines and were given only until Friday