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A Global Index to Quantify Discrimination Resulting from COVID-19 Pandemic Response Policies

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  • Rinner, Claus

    (Toronto Metropolitan University)

  • Uda, Mariko
  • Manwell, Laurie

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Immediately following the emergency use authorizations of COVID-19 vaccines, governments around the world made these products available to their populations and later started implementing differential rules for vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens regarding mobility and access to venues and services. The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) is a time series database that reflects the extent of public health measures in each country. On the basis of the OxCGRT Containment and Health Index, we calculated a corresponding discrimination index by subtracting the daily index values for vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. The resulting metric provides a cursory quantification of the discrimination experienced by unvaccinated individuals throughout 2021 and 2022. Patterns in the index data show a high degree of discrimination with great numeric and temporal differences between jurisdictions. Around 90% of countries in Europe and North and South America discriminated against their unvaccinated citizens at some point during the pandemic. The least amount of discrimination was found for countries in Central America and Africa. In order to move towards sustainable post-pandemic recovery and prevent discriminatory public health policies in the future, we recommend that human rights protections be expanded and the prohibition of discrimination be extended beyond a limited list of grounds.

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  • Rinner, Claus & Uda, Mariko & Manwell, Laurie, 2025. "A Global Index to Quantify Discrimination Resulting from COVID-19 Pandemic Response Policies," SocArXiv h4djv, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:h4djv
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/h4djv
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