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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2025

Necessary conditions for the future consideration of vaccine certificates.

Cécile M Bensimon, Maxwell J Smith, Kumanan Wilson

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Cécile M BensimonBruyère Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
Maxwell J SmithCIHR Applied Public Health Chair in Ethics and Health Emergencies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Canada.
Kumanan WilsonBruyère Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1741-7705

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccine certificates were deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic to enable the partial restoration of social and economic activities whilst protecting the public's health. Despite widespread adoption, their use was (and remains) controversial, especially because of concerns regarding their impact on liberty. Getting clarity on the conditions under which vaccine certificates should and should not be considered is critical as the world prepares for future infectious disease threats, including those that may differ substantially from the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we offer a framework which argues that as three key factors increase - the pathogenicity of the infectious disease, the prevalence of the infectious disease, and the protective effects of its associated vaccine - so, too, does the

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COVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesVaccinationHumansPublic HealthSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 VaccinesInfectious diseaseinfluenzapolicy

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PMID41183369
PMCPMC12382462

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