Vaccine mandates

The case against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in pediatric solid organ transplantation, by Lainie Friedman Ross and Douglas J. Opal, argues that it is ethically unjustified to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for pediatric transplantation listees, February 2022

Many faith leaders weary of religious exemption for vaccine, quoting Center faculty member Michael Deem, February 2022

In Freedom, Rights, and Vaccine Refusal, James Colgrove and Sara Samuel discuss historical arguments that individuals have made in opposition to vaccine mandates and how vaccine refusal is often framed in terms of a “civil right.” They consider implications for COVID-19 vaccine rollout, February 2022

Religious Exemptions and the COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Bioethics for the People podcast interview with CBHL faculty member Michael J. Deem on ethical and legal grounds for religious exemptions to vaccine mandates, November 11, 2021

What Warrants Religious Exemptions from Covid-19 Vaccines?, by Bernard Prusak, explores the moral and legal grounds for accommodating religious objections to vaccine mandates, October 4, 2021

Balancing Incentives and Disincentives for Vaccination in a Pandemic, by Julian Savulescu et al., explores the ethics of mandatory vaccination and vaccine incentives, September 2021

COVID-19 and Mandatory Vaccination: Ethical Considerations and Caveats, published by the World Health Organization on April 13, 2021, discusses the need to mandate vaccination in the context of COVID-19

Lawrence Gostin, Jana Shaw, and Daniel A. Salmon’s Mandatory SARS-COV-2 Vaccinations in K-12 Schools, Colleges/Universities, and Businesses offers guidance on the ethics of mandating COVID vaccinations in different educational and commercial environments, April 7, 2021

In Global Ethical Considerations Regarding Mandatory Vaccination in Children Julian Savulescu  et al. consider the ethics of requiring COVID vaccinations in children through coercive or incentivizing techniques, in the Journal of Pediatrics on January 20, 2021

On November 17, 2020 Joanne Rosen gave an interview entitled Can COVID-19 Vaccines be Mandatory in the U.S. and who Decides? with the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health in which she discussed legal precedent for mandatory vaccinations and exemptions to vaccine requirements

On June 28, 2021 Aaron E. Carroll wrote Vaccine Mandates are Coming. Good. in support of mandatory vaccination in order to achieve herd immunity

In Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk? Julian Savulescu defends mandating vaccination and paying individuals for assumption of risk, in Journal of Medical Ethics, February 2021

Susan Pennings and Xavier Symons respond that Persuasion, not coercion or incentivisation, is the best means of promoting COVID-19 vaccination

Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines by Larry Gostin et al. advocates “limited vaccine mandates with public support, in special high-risk or high-value settings,” in JAMA, February 2021

US Public Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates by Largent EA, et al., in JAMA Network Open, December 2020

Let Employers Mandate Vaccines by Art Caplan, February 12, 2021

Time to mandate influenza vaccination in health-care workers by Art Caplan, July 23, 2011