Wether vaccine passport declared not to go out of home without it may help taking COVID-19 vaccine. Can't it break individual's right to protect the community? Your comments on perspectives please. Can a country has the right to do that?
A passport could theoretically allow visitors to show bars or sports stadiums, for instance, that they have been vaccinated. This could help venues feel more confident about being Covid-secure.
A passport could theoretically allow visitors to show bars or sports stadiums, for instance, that they have been vaccinated. This could help venues feel more confident about being Covid-secure.
Getu Habte < If a given country passes mandatory 'vaccine passport rule' to go outdoors, otherwise stay at home, can it help to vaccinate all against COVID-19? >
I don't know other countries, but the law will be hard to pass here in the US. There are quite of few anti-vaxxers. I can foresee that there will be a lot of confrontations and long battle of lawsuits before the such a law passes (if it can pass). Eventually people might be forced to adopt it, but it will take a long time to get to the point.
It may increase the rate of vaccination among the public, but convincing public is far better than forced vaccination.. With the passage of time health care workers and other people may know more and more about benefits and harm of the vaccines. Govts should wait for some time till study results are available on large scale..
You spotted an crucial issue. Please let me argue that a country (a community) has the right to issue a vaccine a passport. A government must protect her citizens and there will be a solution soon:
1) Johnson Chun-Sing Cheung (2021). Vaccination: keep records secure with blockchain, Nature 590, 389 (2021) 16 February, 2021, Citation: "...That said, issuing ‘immunity passports’ might be premature — first we need more information on the immunity conferred by different COVID-19 vaccines and the impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants." Open access:
2) César Cierco Seira (2021). The Vaccine-Condition Or Vaccination Passport And Its Eventual Fit Into A Broad Recommended Vaccination Framework Against Covid-19, Vacunas, February 2021, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Citation: " ...if conditionality is installed and expanded to the extent of significantly influencing daily life, it could lead to a kind of indirect obligation, with the risk of dysfunctions in terms of equality and systemic coherence if the public powers do not contribute to clearly define the legal limits beforehand and to drive a process that in itself could be dispersed and disorderly. ", Open access:
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EU (European Union) to propose *Covid-19 vaccine passports* in March. Photo: Israelis shows their "green pass" (proof of being fully vaccinated against the coronavirus) before attending a concert in Tel Aviv, on February 24, 2021.
The Science in Emergencies Tasking: COVID-19 group at the Royal Society of the Oxford University has published a report on the Coronavirus vaccine passports/certificates, which have attracted lots of attention in recent months.
The report identifies *12 criteria that passports* must meet in order for them to be efficient and internationally accepted
My critique of vaccine passports just published in the Journal of Medical Ethics: Deleted research itemThe research item mentioned here has been deleted
An introduction to the paper was published here: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2021/03/01/discrimination-on-the-basis-of-vaccination-status-is-inherently-wrong/
A passport could theoretically allow visitors to show bars or sports stadiums, for instance, that they have been vaccinated. This could help venues feel more confident about being Covid-secure. A review of whether such passports could help the economy recover has been announced by the government. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/explainers-55718553
While the vaccines being deployed have shown to have impressive efficacy in reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death for symptomatic Covid-19, at this point there is no concrete evidence that they can thwart transmission, scientists say. “So there is a danger of simply assuming because you’ve been vaccinated, you don’t then spread Covid-19, and that would not be a good scientific basis for a policy of passports,” https://abc7.com/covid-vaccine-passports-passport-usa-coronavirus-vacation/10372971/
Such a passport will only work when we have enough dosage in a country and people have refused to take it. So for now I don't see our country introducing that to go outdoors because majority of us are in rural areas. The passport is needed when you want to travel to a foreign country like say Uganda.