TY - JOUR T1 - Compulsory medical intervention versus external constraint in pandemic control JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - e77 LP - e77 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2020-106435 VL - 47 IS - 12 AU - Thomas Douglas AU - Lisa Forsberg AU - Jonathan Pugh Y1 - 2021/12/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/47/12/e77.abstract N2 - Would compulsory treatment or vaccination for COVID-19 be justified? In England, there would be significant legal barriers to it. However, we offer a conditional ethical argument in favour of allowing compulsory treatment and vaccination, drawing on an ethical comparison with external constraints—such as quarantine, isolation and ‘lockdown’—that have already been authorised to control the pandemic in this jurisdiction. We argue that, if the permissive English approach to external constraints for COVID-19 has been justified, then there is a case for a similarly permissive approach to compulsory medical interventions.There are no data in this work. ER -