On Vaccine Mandates

User icon Toby Green
18 February 2022
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Protests against vaccines mandates have made the news in Canada, but, as some of these articles show, discussions about, for and against mandates are not new. In particular, I recommend the paper from France's Conseil D'Analyse Economique (CAE).


ASSET: Action Plan on Science in Society Related Issues in Epidemics and Total Pandemics · 4 May 2016 English

High rates of vaccination coverage in childhood are main indicators for public health. However, reaching and maintaining such a target is not always an easy task for public health institutions, …


WHO: World Health Organization · 2021 English

Data from French Polynesia and Guam indicate large-scale community transmission, and there is evidence of widespread transmission in some parts of the Philippines (National Capital Region, Region III, and Region …


Pew Research Center · 15 September 2021 English

73% say they are vaccinated, but at least half express confusion, concern over vaccine information and health impacts.


Heritage Foundation · 19 November 2021 English

And while the Senator has emerged as a major force in a number of Senate oversight investigations, more recently, he has focused on the impact of vaccine mandates and the …


The Aspen Institute · 3 June 2020 English

The end of the COVID-19 pandemic will depend on our ability to address vaccine hesitancy, one of the top 10 threats to global health, before a vaccine is put on …


Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission · 24 September 2021 English

Vaccine Mandates and The Saskatchewan Duty to Accommodate Human Rights Code, 2018 Some individuals are not able to receive the The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, 2018 COVID-19 vaccine due to …


Cato Institute · 23 September 2021 English

To gauge whether financial incentives might encourage unvaccinated Americans to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, the Cato Institute and YouGov conducted an internet survey of 2,000 adults aged 18 and up …


IGIDR: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research · 22 November 2021 English

The differences being that the proponents of the declaration indicate that a wait for a safe vaccination or administering one with emergency use authorization will have a greater adverse impact …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 28 August 2014 English

Social interactions make communicable disease a core concern of public health policy. A prevalent problem is scarcity of empirical evidence that are informative about how interventions affect population behavior and …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 4 November 2021 English

This paper analyzes a simple model of infectious disease where the incentives for individuals to reduce risks through endogenous social distancing take straightforward cost-benefit form. Since disease is transmitted through …