After enduring a devastating wave of infections, deaths and lockdowns at the start of the pandemic, Italy is putting in place tougher anti-COVID measures, including a vaccine passport.
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Research shows Australians are broadly supportive of vaccine mandates. But to appear legitimate, a mandate needs to serve clearly articulated public health goals and be proportionate.
As the nation proceeds towards the targets of having 70% and 80% fully vaccinated, we are lagging not because of the public’s reluctance but because of the faults in the rollout.
Ethically, vaccine mandates are justifiable on multiple levels, based on the common good and a public health ethics framework.
With proof of vaccination likely to become mandatory for travel – and possibly other activities – a careful balancing of individual and collective rights will be essential.
France is requiring people to prove their Covid status in order to access public spaces like cinemas and restaurants. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Some deaths among the vaccinated are to be expected given how high the threat of COVID-19 is to older people.
So long as vaccines are readily available, vaccine passports can be made to be fair.
Should people be compelled to take the vaccine? Should you feel guilty for skipping the line? And what about parts of the world where vaccines aren’t readably available? Ethicists have it covered.
COVID-19 vaccine passports are being presented as a relatively simple technological solution to our current travel woes. But meaningful public debate about their merits and problems is essential.
A glance over the NHS app’s new privacy policy has revealed the wider, potentially concerning scope of vaccine passports.
Vaccine passports are small sacrifice to make for the greater good.
The followers of QAnon gained national notoriety for their support of former President Donald Trump. But QAnon members are influencing the GOP at the state and local levels, too.
We thought things would be so much better for international air travel by now, though things could be worse for the airlines themselves.
Your guide to what is going to become of the great British summer bonanza.
How do you prove that people have been vaccinated without putting their privacy at risk? The technology and best practices to make it happen exist. It’s far from clear, however, if they’re being used.
The government should be explicit about what proportion of the population will need to be vaccinated to warrant border reopening. Australians could then measure progress towards that goal.
If a trans-Tasman travel bubble were to be established, passengers would likely need to use ‘vaccine passports’ to prove their vaccination status. But any tech-based system comes with security risks.
In a digital age, and with unequal access to vaccines, there are considerable potential downsides to so-called ‘vaccine passports’.
To make sure the COVID rollout is accessible to all people living in Australia, the government should consider a migrant amnesty.
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Research Assistant in Human Kinetics, University of Windsor
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, McGill University
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Enseignante-chercheur en Philosophie, ESC Clermont Business School
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Lecturer and Programme Leader, BA International Tourism and Events Management, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior lecturer, International Migration and Refugee Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Migration and Border Studies, King’s University College, Western University
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Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida
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Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury
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Teaching Faculty, Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
