1. COVID-19 VACCINES: BIOETHICAL CONSIDERATION.
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Araújo Andrade, Sérgio, da Costa Andrade, Patrícia Alves, Vaz Andrade, Daniel, Consolação dos Santos, Regina, de Pilla Varotti, Fernando, and Abdulgader Lwaleed, Bashir
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COVID-19 vaccines , *VACCINE trials , *VACCINE development , *COVID-19 pandemic - Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic produced immeasurable impacts on the economy, education, and socialization, besides the loss of millions of lives. Thus, there has been an accelerated development of an unprecedented number of COVID-19 vaccine candidates to control the pandemic. The World Health Organization's emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines still in clinical trial allowed immunizing the population. This paper presents a perspective of the bioethical precepts of autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice in the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of surveillance at all stages of vaccine development to detect adverse effects and ensure compliance with bioethical precepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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