COVID-19 vaccine Mandates: An Australian attitudinal study.

ABSTRACT: The rollout of vaccines against COVID-19 is prompting governments and the private sector to adopt mandates. However, there has been little conceptual analysis of the types of mandates available, nor empirical analysis of how the public thinks about different mandates and why. Our conceptual study examines available instruments, how they have been implemented pre-COVID, and their use for COVID-19 globally. Then, our qualitative study reports the acceptability of such measures in Western Australia, which has experienced very limited community transmission, posing an interesting scenario for vaccine acceptance and acceptability of measures to enforce it. Our conceptual study developed categories of mandates from extant work, news reports, and legislative interventions globally. Then, our empi

SUBMITTER: Attwell K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8629747 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature