Journal of Medical Ethics
Booster mandates in young adults are expected to cause a net harm: per COVID-19 hospitalisation prevented, we anticipate at least 18.5 serious adverse events from mRNA vaccines, including 1.5–4.6 booster-associated myopericarditis cases in males (typically requiring hospitalisation). We also anticipate 1430–4626 cases of grade ≥3 reactogenicity interfering with daily activities (although typically not requiring hospitalisation). University booster mandates are unethical because they: (1) are not based on an updated (Omicron era) stratified risk-benefit assessment for this age group; (2) may result in a net harm to healthy young adults; (3) are not proportionate: expected harms are not outweighed by public health benefits given modest and transient effectiveness of vaccines against transmission; (4) violate the reciprocity principle because serious vaccine-related harms are not reliably compensated due to gaps in vaccine injury schemes; and (5) may result in wider social harms. We consider counterarguments including efforts to increase safety on campus but find these are fraught with limitations and little scientific support. Finally, we discuss the policy relevance of our analysis for primary series COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
YOUR SCIENCE ARE BELONG TO US.
One of the things that was most telling to me was the demand
that children and young adults get these vaccines and boosters.
Young people seldom came down with it, and children almost
never did. The mortality rates on those who did, were almost
zero. So why demand they get the shots?
The government agencies have nobody to blame but themselves
for people not trusting them.
This stood out to me the moment they tried to get all
kids vaccinated.
It was as if something was in these shots that had nothing
to do with Covid.
It almost seems as if they were trying to damage the
children of America, so that they couldn’t be expected
to serve in the military when they grew up.
I certainly can’t prove that, but something was the driving
force here, and Covid certainly wasn’t it.
I wonder what our armed services are seeing when it comes
to recruits who have had the full series of vaccines and
boosters.
It will also be interesting to see what happens as our
young kids grow up to be military age, and who they can
function in our armed services.