Despite Over 95% Vaxx’d, Harvard Business School Shifts Classes Online After “Substantial Outbreak” Of COVID

Harvard Business School (HBS) has moved its first-year and some second-year MBA students to remote learning after an outbreak of COVID.  "In recent days, we've seen a steady rise in breakthrough infections among our student population, despite high vaccination rates and frequent testing," Mark Cautela, head of communications for HBS, told Poets&Quants. What's remarkable is that most college students and staff at Harvard (95% students and 96% employees) are vaccinated against the coronavirus. Is Harvard therefore implicitly admitting that vaccine effectiveness has waned to the point of total ineffectiveness? Harvard has requested students to limit in-person interactions with others outside their household, move all group meetings online, and cancel group activities. So, despite all the promises of a 'return to normal' if only everyone were vaccinated (which in this case they are), it appears elite higher education in 2021 is no different from elite higher education in 2020... and certainly not any cheaper.