Mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers: consequences of denying bodily autonomy

Sokol’s arguments for mandatory covid-19 vaccination of healthcare workers1 do not take into account a number of relevant matters.

For example, in praising the increased vaccine uptake among healthcare staff in France, who otherwise faced losing their job, Sokol fails to consider the consequences of undermining their bodily autonomy on their respect for patients’ bodily autonomy.

Sokol tells us there is no time to wait and see. There is, however, little real life evidence …