The Ethical Significance of Post-Vaccination COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics.
J Bioeth Inq
; 20(1): 21-29, 2023 03.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2298179
ABSTRACT
The potential for vaccines to prevent the spread of infectious diseases is crucial for vaccination policy and ethics. In this paper, I discuss recent evidence that the current COVID-19 vaccines have only a modest and short-lived effect on reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission and argue that this has at least four important ethical implications. First, getting vaccinated against COVID-19 should be seen primarily as a self-protective choice for individuals. Second, moral condemnation of unvaccinated people for causing direct harm to others is unjustified. Third, the case for a harm-based moral obligation to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is weak. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, coercive COVID-19 vaccination policies (e.g., measures that exclude unvaccinated people from society) cannot be directly justified by the harm principle.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Bioeth Inq
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S11673-022-10223-6
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