Are COVID-19 vaccine mandates human rights violations?

Probably not, experts say, because everyone has a fundamental right to be protected from the spread of the disease.

Biden Going Nuclear, Will Mandate Vaccines (or Testing) for Most Private Employees

If you’re going to have to put up with the political opposition calling you the Hitler of vaccines regardless, President Joe Biden appears to have reasoned, you might as well also get the benefit of curtailing the pandemic by putting vaccine requirements in place:

Five Extremely Simple Reasons Why Biden Made the Right Call Mandating Vaccines

So it seems like a good moment to point out the very simple reasons why Biden’s move is in fact entirely sensible, especially since parts of the media seem intent on framing the whole thing as just another round in America’s culture war rather than an actual matter of life and death. (Here’s looking at you, Mike Allen.)

Arguments over compulsory covid-19 vaccination are raging across Europe

Austria is in the vanguard; others may soon follow.

Vaccine mandates have worked in the past. Can they overcome modern hurdles?

The public health directives are older than the U.S. itself. But it's unclear whether they will be effective at driving up COVID-19 vaccination among the nation's 80 million resistant adults.

Vaccine Mandates Work—but Only If They’re Done Right

Requiring people to get their shots can stop Covid-19, but those rules have to be doable and equitable.

Why Pfizer's FDA Approval Matters And What It Means For Vaccine Mandates

It's likely we'll see more vaccine requirements put in place now that there is one vaccine with full FDA approval.

A Covid Vaccine Crossroads

You can oppose government mandates but still favor mass vaccination.

Fight Vaccine Hesitancy With Mandates?

Have we forgotten the concept of public health? Taking an action because it is the right thing to do, for the health of the community, the country, the world. More people vaccinated will definitely save lives. Why are we talking about individuals having the right to make a choice that seriously affects the health of all?

Nations weigh mandates and incentives to drive up vaccination rates

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed economic and social fault lines around the globe, but Covid-19 vaccines have made the divides even starker: While some poor countries are pleading for doses to save their people, a few rich ones are awash in shots and lacking takers.

Should the Government Impose a National Vaccination Mandate?

Despite claims to the contrary, there are many routes to legally requiring COVID inoculation.

The French Rush For Vaccines After They're Told They'll Need Them To Go To Cafes

"Get vaccinated!" the president said in a live address to the nation, warning of a new coronavirus surge fueled by the fast-spreading delta variant. Many French people got the message loud and clear. On Monday, 926,000 people booked their first dose through the online medical platform Doctolib — "an absolute record," the site says. Hundreds of thousands more have continued to book slots on Tuesday. Vaccination, Macron said, is "the only path to return to normal life." He called it "our collective shield."

Can The Government Make Me Get The COVID Vaccine?

NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson and political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben put those questions to law professor Lindsay Wiley from American University in Washington, D.C., where she directs the health law and policy program.

Debating Vaccine Mandates on Campus

Students weigh the pros and cons of their colleges’ vaccine rules.

Haunted by Past Virus Surges, California Leans on Masks and Vaccines

A new indoor mask requirement in Los Angeles County comes as new virus cases have nearly tripled statewide. Immunization rates, however, should keep any spike below past peaks.

Is It Legal For Employers To Mandate COVID-19 Vaccinations?

Vaccinations are on the rise in the U.S., and some employers are thinking about how and when to bring people back to work. But what about those employees who won't get the vaccine? Can they be forced to do so?

Mandate the vaccine, not masks

Vaccines are the solution to Covid-19. Let’s make the most of them.

Most Americans Now Support Mask And Vaccination Mandates. Which Companies Will Follow Their Lead?

Entrepreneur Emiliana Guereca recalled that, “2020 was an awful year for both employees and employers, and if we want to get back to business, businesses need to take the lead on mask and vaccination mandates.

Nations weigh mandates and incentives to drive up vaccination rates

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed economic and social fault lines around the globe, but Covid-19 vaccines have made the divides even starker: While some poor countries are pleading for doses to save their people, a few rich ones are awash in shots and lacking takers.

Of Vaccine Mandates and Facing Reality

The point is that most vaccine resistance isn’t about deep concerns, but it often involves assertions of the right to give (misguided perceptions of) self-interest priority over the public interest.

Proven ways to boost Covid-19 vaccination: mandates plus nudges

It’s time to get serious about vaccination. If we have a checkerboard of communities across America without adequate uptake of Covid-19 vaccines, we will never stem the pandemic.

Should Covid Vaccines Be Mandatory?

Trying really to incentivize people to get vaccinated, I think, is going to be a much more popular route than mandates - Nancy Rothbard

The Only Way for the U.S. to Reach Herd Immunity Is With COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Rather than carrots, reaching herd immunity is likely to require the use of sticks: vaccine mandates.

These People Should Be Required to Get Vaccinated

We need to sharply reduce coronavirus infections to turn the tide and quell the pandemic. The best hope is to maximize the number of people vaccinated, especially among those who interact with many others and are likely to transmit the virus. How can we increase vaccinations? Mandates.

Vaccine Mandates Are Coming. Good.

Some even view vaccine mandates as un-American, but they are part of our foundational fabric. During the Revolutionary War, inoculation against smallpox was common in Europe. Because of this, the British Army was largely safe from the disease, but the colonists’ army was not. Mandates still aren’t popular; few public health measures are. But they work.

Vaccine mandates are spreading

But fear of the Delta variant may do enough to raise vaccination rates without them

Vaccine mandates aren’t the only – or easiest – way for employers to compel workers to get their shots

Are companies meddling in workers’ choice and behavior? Of course they are. You might even say it’s their core competency.

Vaccine mandates for healthcare workers should be scrapped – omicron has changed the game

We believe that the vaccine mandate for healthcare staff in the UK should be abandoned. However, this is not because mandating vaccination for healthcare workers is unethical. (Vaccine mandates can be ethical.) And it is not because vaccine mandates will threaten NHS staffing - though they might, and that is an important consideration. The reason they should be abandoned is because they are now pointless.

Vaccine mandates: Good or bad idea?

What would be a better approach to getting people to take their medicine, considering our culture, laws, and legacy that uphold personal rights and freedoms? A better approach, I would suggest, is to leave it up to the people.

Vaccine Mandates: The End of Covid? Or the Beginning of Tyranny?

The Covid-19 mandates — and the mandates against the mandates — are part of a larger trend in American life that, sadly, has acquired greater momentum during the pandemic: the politicization of everything.

Why America needs vaccine mandates

State pressure has a role in public health. Covid-19 jabs are no exception.

Why Is Russia’s Vaccination Rate So Low?

If the Russian government becomes more transparent about COVID data and more consistent while introducing anti-COVID restrictions, it might help to fight vaccine hesitancy. Otherwise, mandates might only contribute to the impression that the government is hiding something and citizens will end up cheating, which won’t help anybody.

Why suggesting mandatory Covid vaccinations is an ethical minefield

Countries like the UK and the US have libertarian roots and value individual freedom. Those against mandatory vaccinations are not necessarily anti-vaxx or even unvaccinated.

Why the US president can’t mandate a Covid-19 vaccine

But despite his pledge to get the pandemic under control, there’s one key lever the Biden won’t be able to pull: A vaccine mandate. The US president has never been able to impose a federal mandate of vaccines across the country, and that won’t change anytime soon. “It goes back to the fact that the federal government is one of limited power,” says Dorit Reiss, a professor specializing in healthcare law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

‘Religious’ exemptions complicate vaccine mandates

With workplace vaccine mandates in the offing, opponents are turning to a tried-and-true recourse for avoiding a covid-19 shot: the claim that vaccination interferes with religious beliefs.