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Immunity Passports May Violate U.S. Law
05/29/2020
Officials in the U.S. and a handful of other countries have been mulling the use of immunity passports to make clear who is immune from the coronavirus, but their use could violate disability protections and enable discrimination, according to an article at The Conversation website by Seema Mohapatra, Associate Professor of Law and Dean's Fellow at IU McKinney Law.
“As a law professor who has written about legal issues raised by new biotechnologies, I'm concerned about the potential legal and ethical ramifications of immunity passports that aren't based on vaccinations. Not only could their use violate U.S. disability protections, they could also enable discrimination and foster a two-tiered society in which many are left behind,” she writes.
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