As governments around the world introduce Covid-19 vaccination mandates, experts outline the ethical considerations policymakers must take into account.
Savulescu said in his opinion, mandating Covid vaccines for an entire population did not meet those requirements. As the immunizations are not 100% effective at reducing transmission, he said they do not provide an extra level of protection to others that warrant such an extreme level of coercion.
This could be used to justify making Covid vaccines compulsory, he said, but only when the policy was applied to the people who were most likely to require hospitalization or intensive care if they contracted the virus. "The ethical dilemma, particularly in the United States, is the inherent conflict between an individual's autonomy and liberty and the value to public health," he said. "Given that if more people are vaccinated [it would] lead to fewer deaths, there is an ethical justification of the overall good."
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