Die AG Ethik hat einen Policy Brief mit dem Titel: "Ethical Recommendations for Mobile SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Teams in Long-Term Care Homes" veröffentlicht.
Key messages:
Mobile vaccination teams visiting long-term care homes will have an important role in providing vaccination coverage for some of the most vulnerable population sub-groups. However, based on the experiences of German mobile diagnostic teams during the first COVID-19 pandemic wave, the deployment of mobile vaccination teams to care homes for older adults and people with disabilities is expected to raise various ethical challenges. These individuals are the most vulnerable to disease and death and, therefore, likely to have high or the highest priority in the vaccination strategy. Besides organizational barriers, the success of the vaccination strategy will also depend on the capacity and ethical competency of well-trained inter-professional teams. Regardless of public expectations and hopes, vaccination programs must not fall into the trap of pandemic exceptionalism by ignoring or overriding established principles of biomedical ethics. Hence, in all their activities, the principles of respect for individuals' autonomy and for trust have to be balanced with a population perspective which aims at a broad vaccination coverage. Policy makers, nursingrepresentatives and those implementing the vaccination programs are called on to reflect upon, consider and integrate some practical ethical guidance into the planning and training of mobile vaccination teams.
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