Abstract

LEAL-DE MEIRELES, Jussara Maria  and  OBLADEN-DE ALMENDRA FREITAS, Cinthia. Legal and bioethical analysis on the online invitation for COVID-19 vaccine trials. Rev. Bioética y Derecho [online]. 2022, n.54, pp.167-183.  Epub Dec 12, 2022. ISSN 1886-5887.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1344/rbd2021.54.35677.

The COVID-19 pandemic came in people's lives in a devastating way, bringing changes in habits, thoughts, and actions. The article performs a legal and bioethical analysis of the website "1 DAY SOONER", which is representative of these platforms and able to support a generalization for analogous situations faced by the COVID-19 pandemic, involving legal aspects such as the right to life, health and one's own body, freedom, private autonomy, solidarity, waiver of rights; and also some issues related to bioethics, such as beneficence and non-maleficence in a pandemic event, considering the Brazilian legislation applicable to the subject. The research has a methodology based on a case study. There is much to be done regarding people's interest in volunteering in a call for clinical trials involving humans, deliberately exposing themselves to infections, relativizing and waiving rights.

Keywords : Bioethics; waiver of rights; fundamental rights; COVID-19; pandemic.

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