On Monday, more than three months after requiring students to get vaccinated to return to campus for the fall semester, Georgetown Law School announced that it would be keeping its current mask mandate for all students and implementing a burdensome testing protocol for students who receive an exemption. Besides being anti-science by forcing vaccinated students to wear masks to class, these rules will force students with severe medical conditions who cannot get vaccinated to get two COVID-19 tests a week or risk not being able to attend class. I am proud to attend Georgetown Law, but this new protocol discriminates against students like me who suffer from serious medical conditions, possibly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
During my senior year of high school, I was diagnosed with agammaglobulinemia, a rare immune deficiency that leaves my body unable to produce B cells, which represent one-third of your immune system. My condition is so serious that at the time of my diagnosis, I only had four B cells in my entire body — for context, the average person has over 1,000.
