Purpose

The COVID-19 pandemic broke out at the end of 2019, and throughout 2020 there were intensive international efforts to find a vaccine for the disease, which had already led to the deaths of some five million people. In December 2020, several pharmaceutical companies announced that they had succeeded in producing an effective vaccine, and after approval by the various regulatory bodies, countries started to vaccinate their citizens. With the start of the global campaign to vaccinate the world’s population against COVID-19, debates over the prioritization of different sections of the population began around the world, but the prison population has generally been absent from these discussions.

Approach and Findings

This article presents the approach of Jewish ethics regarding this issue, that is, that there is a religious and a moral obligation to heal the other and to take care of his or her medical well-being and that this holds true even for a prisoner who has committed a serious crime. Hence, prisoners should be vaccinated according to the same priorities that govern the administration of the vaccine among the general public.

Originality

The originality of the article is in a comprehensive and comparative reference between general ethics and Jewish ethics on a subject that has not yet received the proper attention.

中文翻译：

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针对 COVID-19 囚犯疫苗的犹太伦理

目的

COVID-19 大流行于 2019 年底爆发，整个 2020 年国际社会都在大力寻找针对该疾病的疫苗，该疾病已导致约 500 万人死亡。2020年12月，多家制药公司宣布已成功生产出有效疫苗，并在获得各监管机构批准后，各国开始为其公民接种疫苗。随着为世界人口接种 COVID-19 疫苗的全球运动的开始，世界各地开始了关于不同人群的优先顺序的争论，但监狱人口普遍缺席这些讨论。

方法和结果

本文介绍了犹太伦理在这个问题上的态度，即治愈他人并照顾他或她的医疗健康有宗教和道德义务，即使对于患有以下疾病的囚犯来说也是如此。犯有严重罪行。因此，囚犯应按照与公众疫苗接种相同的优先顺序接种疫苗。

独创性

本文的原创性在于对一般伦理学和犹太伦理学在一个尚未受到适当关注的主题上进行了全面的比较参考。