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Perhaps vaccine passports result in a decrease

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Alfie Lily

Perhaps vaccine passports result in a decrease in hospitalisation rates, and therefore a lesser burden on the healthcare system. But that still doesn’t resolve the question of whether they are ethically justifiable. Some people think that enforcing vaccine passports might not be ethically acceptable if it violates certain individual freedoms for the sake of certain public goods.

But some critics have questioned the need of enforcing a passport, on the basis that while vaccines have been proven to reduce the chance of falling seriously ill, they do not fully stop the spread of the disease. And an increasing number of commentators have leveraged ethical arguments, comparing vaccine passports to a form of state coercion. We asked digital society professor Helen Kennedy and ethics researcher Alberto Giubilini for their views.

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