Open AccessAustralia needs a vaccine injury compensation scheme: Upcoming COVID-19 vaccines make its introduction urgent
Author(s) -
Nicholas Wood,
Kristine Macartney,
Julie Leask,
Peter McIntyre
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
australian journal of general practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2208-794X
pISSN - 2208-7958
DOI - 10.31128/ajgp-covid-36
Subject(s) - covid-19 , compensation (psychology) , scheme (mathematics) , public health , virology , medicine , psychology , outbreak , nursing , social psychology , mathematics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , mathematical analysis , disease
There is a strong public health ethical justification to introduce a vaccine injury compensation scheme in Australia, and it needs to be in place before widespread use of COVID-19 vaccines.