At a congressional hearing on COVID-19 vaccinations and other treatments on Wednesday, Dr. Marty Makary, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, slammed colleges for requiring COVID-19 vaccination boosters for young people who have previously had COVID-19 and likely already have natural immunity.

“There is nothing that represents American waste, excess, and global arrogance more than requiring a young, healthy, low-risk student who had the infection in the past and already has natural immunity to get a booster,” Makary told the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing, entitled “A Global Crisis Needs a Global Solution: The Urgent Need to Accelerate Vaccinations Around the World.

“Yet dozens of colleges and universities have already announced this as a requirement,” he continued. “We need precise medical guidance, not blanket medical guidance.”