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1. Ethics & Medics: Volume > 46 > Issue: 4
Joseph Meaney

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COVID-19 vaccine passports run the risk of creating a divided society where social privileges or restrictions based on “fitness” lead to discrimination based on immunization status. Individuals have a strong right to be free of coercion to take a COVID-19 vaccine, and we should be very leery of further invasion of private medical decisions. These concerns are shared both internationally and in the United States, and the World Health Organization, the Biden administration, and many US governors oppose COVID-19 vaccine credentials. In addition, regulations for COVID-19 vaccine credentials face practical barriers, including lack of access globally, especially among the poor; and lack of scientific data on the efficacy of these vaccines.

2. Ethics & Medics: Volume > 46 > Issue: 4
Rev. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, OP

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Although COVID-19 vaccine credentials for international travel are an unwelcome or dangerous concept to some in the developed world, such measures are an essential component of global public health in some of the poorest countries of the world, in particular to prevent the spread of yellow fever. If one accepts the liceity of vaccine credentials for yellow fever in the developing world, then one has to do the same with similar credentials for COVID-19. A COVID-19 vaccine credential will allow developing countries to reopen their borders and economies long before they can attain herd immunity. It will be a lifeline for economies that have been ravaged by the global pandemic. It will be part of the global common good.

3. Ethics & Medics: Volume > 46 > Issue: 4
Joseph Meaney

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This essay clarifies the author’s objections to COVID-19 vaccine credentials voiced in “The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Passports.” The author’s objections centered on discriminatory practices based on vaccine status for domestic social and work activities, but he agrees with the World Health Organization that these credentials should not be required for international travel. In addition, there is a significant ethical different between currently available COVID-19 vaccines and the yellow fever vaccine because the former are produced or tested using abortion-derived cell lines. The yellow fever vaccine is much less ethically problematic. This situation could change with the approval of new COVID-19 vaccines without links to abortion-derived cell lines.