Conversation

Our study revealed a system in Ontario healthcare settings that inflicts significant harm on non-compliant HCWs and patients, discriminates against these HCWs’ right to work, and violates the right to informed consent of both HCWs and patients. These ethical violations, compounded by the mounting lack of evidence of effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination to stop viral transmission—this effectiveness proposed as its scientific rationale—call for an urgent reconsideration of the practice.