Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself: Vaccination in the Age of COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, represents that latest challenge in the long history of vaccine development and deployment. The pathway out of the current pandemic due to this virus requires a sufficient number of the population developing immune resistance such that herd immunity resul...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Routledge
2020
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| Στο/Στη: |
Theology and science
Έτος: 2020, Τόμος: 18, Τεύχος: 3, Σελίδες: 349-351 |
| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | NCC Κοινωνική Ηθική NCH Ιατρική Ηθική ΤΚ Σύγχρονη Εποχή |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
herd immunity
B SARS-CoV-2 B Covid-19 B Vaccination B vaccine hesitance |
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| Σύνοψη: | SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, represents that latest challenge in the long history of vaccine development and deployment. The pathway out of the current pandemic due to this virus requires a sufficient number of the population developing immune resistance such that herd immunity results. Finding a safe and efficacious vaccine is the most compassionate route of exit, compared to natural infection leading to unwanted fatalities of the most susceptible. As a result, vaccine acceptance might be looked on as one form of obeying the Second Great Commandment: Love thy neighbor as thyself. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2020.1786212 |