By
Dr K K Aggarwal
President CMAAO, HCFI,
With input from Dr Monica Vasudev
Yes:
1. Even if One country is having the persistent infection, the mutations will keep occurring
2. The data suggests that vaccines are very safe. The public health data suggests that COVID-19 is a huge health risk and that people should be vaccinating to protect themselves.
3. It’s a novel virus and hence will infect 100% population if the person gets exposed
4. Corona or vaccine the choice is yours
5. Vaccine mandates may become a necessity once we have more vaccines than people willing to take them.
6. An employer can mandate vaccine on the job as long as they’re not applying it in a discriminatory fashion and making it mandatory for all.
7. Vaccine is now available for all healthcare workers as hospitals can mandate if they want and patients may can ask treatment only from vaccinated individuals.
8. COVID 19 neutralising antibodies tests are now available and can be a real vaccine passport.
No:
1. With supplies of the vaccines currently available falling well short of demand, mandating vaccination is likely not a realistic scenario now.
2. Is it legal for states, private employers, and even airlines, to mandate a vaccine that has only been approved for emergency use? Who could be held responsible if something goes wrong after getting the shot?
3. A vaccine mandate that requires that every man, woman, and child in America get a certain vaccine would be relatively unprecedented. Usually, when we think of vaccine mandates we limit them to if you want to send your child to school; or if you want to work for a certain type of employer, like a hospital.
4. The limited case law that we have in USA, which largely goes back to this one case from 1905, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, does say that states and municipalities have very broad powers to compel vaccination for the benefit of public health.
5. When it comes to these vaccines they haven’t received full authorization. Is it legal to require something that hasn’t been fully authorized?
6. But will it stand up to a challenge of somebody saying: "Hey, if you want to compel me to take something; you have to make sure that it is actually safe and actually effective through the proper channels." That’s going to be an interesting question that will play out in the next year or so.
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