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Will people who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus receive special rights and privileges in society, for example, to travel and work? Examples of similar privileges are found in other long-known vaccines.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn strongly opposes having privileges for people immunized against coronavirus, adding that “no one should claim special rights until everyone has the opportunity to be vaccinated,” reports DW.
Before Span, the federal interior minister, Horst Seehofer, took a position on the privileges and assured that the state would not allow the existence of benefits for the immunized. Otherwise, everything would seem like a mandatory vaccination. Seehofer emphasized that he was against coercion and rejected the different treatment of vaccinated and unvaccinated by private companies, such as airlines.
Similar opinion was expressed by the health expert and deputy of the Social Democratic Party Karl Lauterbach. “Privileges cannot be controlled or justified,” he said.
However, the president of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, believes that, in the long term, people immunized against the coronavirus may receive special rights.
“Now that we cannot offer a vaccine to everyone, this approach is unacceptable,” Montgomery said. But later, when all people have the opportunity to be vaccinated and more is known about the presence of immunity in the blood, the appropriate solutions will be possible.
He gave other examples of this approach: Some countries have issued entry bans for people who are not immune to yellow fever. Furthermore, Germany requires compulsory measles vaccination as a condition for admission to kindergarten.
More medical evidence is needed
The German information portal RND, for its part, writes that the question whether the immunized and the non-immunized should be treated differently so far cannot be definitively answered from a medical point of view.
Vaccine trials to date have shown that immunized people receive approximately 90% protection against Covid. But immunized people can only enjoy special rights if it is proven with the same certainty that they cannot infect other people.
According to the Robert Koch Institute, it is not yet known with certainty whether those immunized can transmit the infection or not. This is not yet known for the three best-known vaccines to date.
There are no constitutional obstacles
Other long-known vaccines, such as the measles vaccine, are also known to prevent the spread of infection. In other words, if the coronavirus vaccine results in an immunity that prevents the spread of the infection, those immunized could ask for the pandemic restrictions to be lifted.
Some airlines want to vaccinate the vaccinated
There are also constitutional grounds for its possible advantages, because the state can restrict the fundamental rights of citizens only for as long as necessary.
However, there are also legal arguments in favor of equal treatment between immunized and unimmunized. A policy of equal treatment could prevent disunity in society. In other words, the policy must consider two different concepts: privileged and equal treatment.
The legislator could make the relevant decision, for example, including nationally valid rules in the Infection Protection Act.
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