COVID-19 poses an extraordinary threat to global public health and an effective vaccine
could provide a key means of overcoming this crisis. Human challenge studies involve the …

Vaccination decisions and policies present tensions between individual rights and the moral
duty to contribute to harm prevention. This article focuses on ethical issues around …

Mandatory vaccination, including for COVID-19, can be ethically justified if the threat to
public health is grave, the confidence in safety and effectiveness is high, the expected utility …

In 2022, students at North American universities with third-dose COVID-19 vaccine
mandates risk disenrolment if unvaccinated. To assess the appropriateness of booster …

When we have a vaccine against COVID-19, who should be vaccinated first? The question
is relevant because, initially, vaccine availability will likely be limited. After healthcare and …

This report of the WHO Working Group for Guidance on Human Challenge Studies in COVID-
19 outlines ethical standards for COVID-19 challenge studies. It includes eight Key Criteria …

Whether children should be vaccinated against coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)(or
other infectious diseases such as influenza) and whether some degree of coercion should …

The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, poses an
extraordinary threat to global public health, socioeconomic stability, food security and other …

Influenza vaccine is considered the most effective way to prevent influenza. Nonetheless,
every year vaccine coverage is lower than recommended in the pediatric population. Many …

We use a simple SIR-like epidemic model integrating known age-contact patterns for the
United States to model the effect of age-targeted mitigation strategies for a COVID-19-like …