COVID-19 Vaccination Refusal: An Inquiry of Vaccine Mandate Positions in Healthcare
Mandates Created Medical Apartheid
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
This paper caught my attention on the issue of COVID-19 vaccination in healthcare workers. Chaufan and Hemsing used a “What is the problem” framework to search the literature on this issue and understand the “dominant representations” of healthcare institutions. There conclusions were stunning from a social science perspective.
“We conclude by noting that an apartheid-like system has been imposed on “HCWs for simply demanding the free exercise of their human right to informed consent, enshrined across classic documents (Shuster, 1997; UNESCO, 2005; World Medical Association, 1964). Informed consent includes the right to be fully and honestly informed about the risks and benefits of, and alternatives to, any medical intervention, to be offered the alternative to do nothing, and to be able to choose free from coercion. We have also argued that mandated vaccination for HCWs, or any other social group for that matter, is at odds with the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusivity, held normatively in high esteem by the same institutions that appear to be participating in subverting them in practice (CDC, 2023; Health Canada, 2017; NHS Leadership Academy, 2024; WHO, 2023a). A comprehensive evaluation of all relevant scientific, ethical, and legal aspects of the policy of mandated vaccination for HCWs is beyond the scope of this study, of our personal resources and capabilities, and of any single study. We trust however that our work can still contribute to a better-informed public debate around mandated vaccination and around COVID-19 policy more generally moving forward.”
Even if the vaccines were safe and effective, one would conclude from this analysis that vaccine mandates should have no role in organized medicine. The violations of medical ethics overwhelm the argument of community benefit.
Please subscribe to Courageous Discourse as a paying or founder member so we can continue to bring you the truth.
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
President, McCullough Foundation
To be shame patients for not taking a shot or particular medicine ( statins or otherwise) is not our place as physicians. APS cannot remove one from a foul home wreaking of cat urine if they are mentally sane.
We guide. We assist. We console. But never can we physicians cheat Death of Her spoil.
Years ago I wrote a paper as to why smokers should not pay more for healthcare. Dr Elias Baumgarten U of Mich interrupted my final stating it was the best argument he had read. Point being that the yamas and niyamas of medicine ( Maharishi Patanjali reference) must include our Hippocratic oath and humility, remembering our own fallibility.
Great post, Sir. Thank you
Mandating vaccines was not new with the COVID "vaccines." Taking flu vaccines had been mandated for years, with loss of employment the ultimate stick used to force compliance. "Evidence-based" medical establishments had no problem doing so even though what little evidence there was for the utility of such a mandate came only from long-term care facilities, which are a very different setting from outpatient medical clinics or acute care hospital settings. Many HCW's were already distrustful of the administrative bodies and forcing people to take those vaccines certainly didn't help. The mRNA jabs were really a step too far, and the destructive effect on hospitals and respect for the health care establishment is profound, and it will take years for the respect they once enjoyed to be recovered, assuming they don't shoot themselves in the foot the next time some contagious illness shows up. My experience with many (but not all) health care administrators is that thelr egos make the probability of them learning some humility very poor.