Are we ready for COVID-19's Golden Passport? Insights from a Global Physician Survey
Doraiswamy, P. M.; Chilukuri, M.; Linares, A. R.; Bramstedt, K. A.
Show abstract
IntroductionCOVID-19 immunity passports could protect the right to free movement, but critics worry about insufficient evidence, privacy, fraud, and discrimination. We aimed to characterize the global physician communitys opinion regarding immunity passports. MethodsCross sectional, random stratified sample of physicians registered with Sermo, a global networking platform open to verified and licensed physicians. The survey aimed to sample 1,000 physicians divided among the USA, EU and rest of the world. The survey question on immunology asked physicians to offer their insights into whether we know enough about COVID-19 immunity and its duration to offer immunity passports at the present time. ResultsThe survey was completed by 1004 physicians (67 specialties, 40 countries, 49% frontline specialties) with a mean (SD) age of 49.14 (12) years. Overall, 52% answered NO, 17% were UNCERTAIN, and 31% answered YES (P <0.05). EU physicians were more likely to sayYES but even among them it did not exceed 35% approval. US physicians (60%) were more likely to say NO. ConclusionOur findings suggest a current lack of support among physicians for immunity passports. It is hoped that ongoing research and vaccine trials will provide further clarity.
Matching journals
The top 11 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.
Similar papers in this journal
- Sunshine on KOL : a retrospective study about financial ties between medical key opinion leaders and pharmaceutical industry in France 92%
- Financial Conflicts of Interest among U.S. Physician Authors of 2020 Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Cross-Sectional Study 92%
- Accuracy of Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures of Physician-Authors Publishing in High-Impact U.S. Medical Journals: A Comparison of the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine 92%
Similar papers in this journal
- Crowdfunding Medical Care: A Comparison of Online Medical Fundraising in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States 92%
- Characterizing Potential Conflicts of Interest Among UpToDate and DynaMed Content Contributors 91%
- COVID-19 outcomes, risk factors and associations by race: a comprehensive analysis using electronic health records data in Michigan Medicine 90%
Similar papers in this journal
- COVID-19 case definitions, diagnostic testing criteria, and surveillance across the pandemic’s 25 highest burden countries 88%
- Self-reported and physiological reactions to the third BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 (booster) vaccine dose 87%
- “Effectiveness of whole virus COVID-19 vaccine at protecting health care personnel against SARS-CoV-2 infections in Lima, Peru” 86%
Similar papers in this journal
- Recording of 'COVID-19 vaccine declined' among vaccination priority groups: a cohort study on 57.9 million NHS patients' primary care records in situ using OpenSAFELY 90%
- Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 in Europe: a quasi-experimental study 89%
- Factors that influenced the course of the mpox outbreak in the Netherlands, 2022-2023 87%
Similar papers in this journal
- Factors indicating intention to vaccinate with a COVID-19 vaccine among older U.S. Adults 91%
- COVID-19 vaccine access and attitudes among people experiencing homelessness from pilot mobile phone survey in Los Angeles, CA 91%
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Underserved Communities of North Carolina 90%
"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.