Bioethicist: 'Immunity Passports' Could Do More Harm Than Good
The so-called passports have been floated as a way to get people who've recovered from COVID-19 back to work safely. But a Harvard professor says creating an "immunodeprived" status is unethical.
by Ailsa Chang
May 29, 2020
2 minutes
"Immunity passports" have been proposed as one way to reboot economies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The theory is this: The approval of the so-called passports would rely on the positive results from an antibody test of your collected blood sample. If you have antibodies to the coronavirus after recovering from an infection, you might be
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