Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations and Human Rights in Europe: How to find a Delicate Balance

Vaccinations are considered amongst the greatest medical achievements of modern medicine. The discovery of the COVID-19 vaccines and the roll out of mass vaccination campaigns (including booster doses and vaccines for minors), have allowed developed countries to slowly come back to normal life, immunizing most of their populations and entering a ‘post-pandemic scenario’.1 The development of a vaccine is a lengthy process, usually taking several years and different stages (preclinical, studies on animals, clinics and then large-scale vaccine production and licensing).