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ArticleJournal of medical ethics2020

Passport to freedom? Immunity passports for COVID-19.

Rebecca C H Brown, Julian Savulescu, Bridget Williams, Dominic Wilkinson

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Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Rebecca C H BrownOxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK rebecca.brown@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-8023-1092
Julian SavulescuOxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Bridget WilliamsSchool of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Dominic WilkinsonOxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3958-8633
University of Oxford · GBMonash University · AU

Funding

Wellcome Trust 104848Wellcome Trust 104848/Z/14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has led a number of countries to introduce restrictive 'lockdown' policies on their citizens in order to control infection spread. Immunity passports have been proposed as a way of easing the harms of such policies, and could be used in conjunction with other strategies for infection control. These passports would permit those who test positive for COVID-19 antibodies to return to some of their normal behaviours, such as travelling more freely and returning to work. The introduction of immunity passports raises a number of practical and ethical challenges. In this paper, we seek to review the challenges relating to various practical considerations, fairness issues, the risk to social cooperation and the impact on people's civil liberties. We make tentative recommendations for the ethical introduction of immunity passports.

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Asymptomatic DiseasesBetacoronavirusCertificationCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Health PolicyHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPublic HealthSARS-CoV-2TravelUnited Kingdomethicspublic health ethicspublic policy

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PMID32817362
PMCPMC7525773
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