Week 14 News Article

Should Vaccines Be Required?

In the article, the implementation of Covid-19 vaccines is debated about. Since some states already require certain vaccines before you go to school, they could potentially mandate the Covid-19 vaccines. Vageesh Jain, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Public Health Medicine at University College London states, “The death rate is estimated at 7.8% in people aged over 80, but at just 0.0016% in children aged nine and under.” Jain also cautions against forcing the vaccination of millions of young and healthy citizens who perceive themselves to be at an acceptably low risk from COVID-19. But some people agree that vaccines should be mandated since Covid-19 is so transmissible. Alberto Giubilini, Senior Research Fellow in ethics at the University of Oxford states, “Being vaccinated dramatically reduces the risk of seriously harming or killing others.” Overall, the question of mentation for vaccines is a very puzzling one, as it concerns many people.

  1. Do you think vaccines should be required or not? Why or why not?
  2. How do you think people will respond to a vaccine mandate?
  3. Would you get the vaccine? Why or why not?

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