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...
| Publicado no: | Theology and science |
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Routledge
2020
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Theology and science
Ano: 2020, Volume: 18, Número: 3, Páginas: 349-351 |
| Classificações IxTheo: | NCC Ética social NCH Ética da medicina TK Período contemporâneo |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
herd immunity
B Coronavírus da síndrome respiratória aguda grave 2 B Covid-19 B Vaccination B vaccine hesitance |
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| Resumo: | 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 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2020.1786212 |