Expert Witness: To jab or not to jab, that is the question

Mandating COVID-19 vaccines at work

Summary:

OH law expert Professor Diana Kloss discusses the legal and ethical issues of mandating employees (and others) to accept a COVID-19 vaccination.

At the time of writing (January 2022), one of the most hotly debated issues in the UK is whether the general population should be compelled to be double vaccinated (and given a booster) against COVID-19. The first COVID-19 vaccine was approved by the Medicine and Health Products Regulatory Agency in December 2020 and since then a massive public health campaign has succeeded in giving at least one dose to nearly 52 million people, ie 90% of the UK population aged 12 and over¹. Although the number of infections continues to rise, especially since the emergence of the Omicron variant, there is increasing evidence that vaccination protects against serious disease, at least for a period…

Diana Kloss is a barrister, former part-time employment judge, Acas arbitrator and author. 

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Occupational Health at Work February/March 2022 (vol. 18/5) pp13-16

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