Vaccine hesitancy: the need for informed consent

Informed consent requires that everyone be apprised of their unique risk profile for COVID-19 infection and associated outcomes as well as their risk profile for adverse events due to the vaccine.

A blanket statement that says that the “benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the risks” is meaningless as it does not consider the unique circumstances faced by each member of the public, writes Peter C. Coyte. Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY PETER C. COYTE

July 12, 2021

While the public has been informed that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the risks, a comprehensive and explicit risk assessment has neither been performed in Canada nor have any such assessments been communicated in detail to the public to allow for informed consent. Informed consent ...

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