COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Many nations have long held vaccine mandates for various vaccines with established safety records. New policies mandating experimental vaccines run contrary to the Nuremberg code, principles of liberty, and codified rights.

Vaccine passports are an efficient way for governments to coerce citizens into taking the risks of getting vaccinated for COVID-19.

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The moral justification for a compulsory human papillomavirus vaccination program - Joseph E Balog

Am J Public Health 2009 Apr;99(4):616-22. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.131656. Epub 2009 Feb 5.

Abstract

Compulsory human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination of young girls has been proposed as a public health intervention to reduce the threat of the disease. Such a program would entail a symbiotic relationship between scientific interests in reducing mortality and morbidity and philosophical interests in promoting morality. This proposal raises the issue of whether government should use its police powers to restrict liberty and parental autonomy for the purpose of preventing harm to young people. I reviewed the scientific literature that questions the value of a HPV vaccination. Applying a principle-based approach to moral reasoning, I concluded that compulsory HPV vaccinations can be justified on moral, scientific, and public health grounds. ¹⁾

Covid-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: A risk-benefit assessment and five ethical arguments against mandates at universities

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Kevin Bardosh - University of Washington; University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh Medical School

Allison Krug - Artemis Biomedical Communications LLC

Euzebiusz Jamrozik - University of Oxford

Trudo Lemmens - University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

Salmaan Keshavjee - Harvard University - Harvard Medical School

Vinay Prasad - University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Martin A. Makary - Johns Hopkins University - Department of Surgery

Stefan Baral - John Hopkins University

Tracy Beth Høeg - Florida Department of Health; Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital

Date Written: August 31, 2022

Abstract

Students at North American universities risk disenrollment due to third dose Covid-19 vaccine mandates. We present a risk-benefit assessment of boosters in this age group and provide five ethical arguments against mandates. We estimate that 22,000 - 30,000 previously uninfected adults aged 18-29 must be boosted with an mRNA vaccine to prevent one Covid-19 hospitalisation.

Using CDC and sponsor-reported adverse event data, we find that booster mandates may cause a net expected harm: per Covid-19 hospitalisation prevented in previously uninfected young adults, we anticipate 18 to 98 serious adverse events, including 1.7 to 3.0 booster-associated myocarditis cases in males, and 1,373 to 3,234 cases of grade ≥3 reactogenicity which interferes with daily activities.

Given the high prevalence of post-infection immunity, this risk-benefit profile is even less favourable. University booster mandates are unethical because:

• 1) no formal risk-benefit assessment exists for this age group;
• 2) vaccine mandates may result in a net expected harm to individual young people;
• 3) mandates are not proportionate: expected harms are not outweighed by public health benefits given the modest and transient effectiveness of vaccines against transmission;
• 4) US mandates violate the reciprocity principle because rare serious vaccine-related harms will not be reliably compensated due to gaps in current vaccine injury schemes; and
• 5) mandates create wider social harms. We consider counter-arguments such as a desire for socialisation and safety and show that such arguments lack scientific and/or ethical support.

Finally, we discuss the relevance of our analysis for current 2-dose Covid-19 vaccine mandates in North America. ²⁾