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...
| Publié dans: | Theology and science |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge
2020
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Theology and science
Année: 2020, Volume: 18, Numéro: 3, Pages: 349-351 |
| Classifications IxTheo: | NCC Éthique sociale NCH Éthique médicale TK Époque contemporaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
herd immunity
B Covid-19 B Vaccination B vaccine hesitance B SARS-CoV-2 (virus) |
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| Résumé: | 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 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2020.1786212 |