COVID-19 immunisation in older people

Vaccine Mandates in the COVID-19 Era: Changing Paradigm or Public Health Opportunity?; Comment on "Convergence on Coercion: Functional and Political Pressures as Drivers of Global Childhood Vaccine Mandates"

“…In these respects, a crucial element was timing: the need to achieve extensive coverage in the shortest possible time to interrupt disease spread supported the adoption of stringent vaccination regimes. While we should update our conceptual framework by adding behavioural nudges, 9 such as the COVID-19 digital certificate, as an intermediate strategy between nonmandatory voluntaristic and mandatory passive and punitive laws, we should reflect on its characteristics. If, on one side, asking COVID-19 digital certificate to let people in restaurants and bars was successful in making them get vaccinated (ie, the end justifies the means), on the other side, it did not make them understand the importance of getting vaccinated to protect their and others' health.…”