Covid-2019 - 2022-09-12

In "Recommended Reading," an SSRN paper in which a panel of academics looks at the ethical case against university vaccine mandates. Read the whole thing, but here's the money from the abstract: "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."