Thursday, 5 November 2020

Pay people to get COVID-19 jab to ensure widespread coverage, says leading ethicist

Governments should consider incentivising people to get a COVID-19 jab, when the vaccine becomes available, to achieve the required level of herd immunity—which could be up to 80%+ of the population—and stamp out the infection, argues a leading ethicist in an opinion piece accepted for publication in the Journal of Medical Ethics.