Bioethics | “Europe’s Vaccine Ethics Call: Do No Harm and Let More Die?”

Europe’s Vaccine Ethics Call: Do No Harm and Let More Die? – The New York Times (free registration may be required)

Related opinion: Covid-19 vaccine adverse events: balancing monitoring with confidence in vaccines – The BMJ Opinion

See also: European Medicines Agency finds AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and benefits outweigh the risks (Statement and commentaries) AND Statement of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) COVID-19 subcommittee on safety signals related to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine – World Health Organization AND Update on the safety of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca (statement and commentaries)

Commentary on Twitter

Many bioethicists have a problem with how Europe halted use of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Keeping the vaccine available would have allowed people “to consensually protect themselves from a big risk by taking a very small one.” https://t.co/qctELhfFGI

— NYT Health (@NYTHealth) March 20, 2021