Ethics of college vaccine mandates, using reasonable comparisons.
J Med Ethics
; 2023 Mar 30.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2267855
ABSTRACT
In the paper 'COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults a risk-benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities,' Bardosh et al argued that college mandates of the COVID-19 booster vaccine are unethical. The authors came to this conclusion by performing three different sets of comparisons of benefits versus risks using referenced data and argued that the harm outweighs the risk in all three cases. In this response article, we argue that the authors frame their arguments by comparing values that are not scientifically or reasonably comparable and that the authors used values that represent grossly different risk profiles and grouped them into a set of figures to create an illusion of fair comparisons. We argue that absent the falsely skewed portrayals of a higher level of risk over benefit in their misrepresented figures, the five ethical arguments they presented completely fall apart.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Topics:
Vaccines
Language:
English
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Jme-2022-108852
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