The Nuremberg Code requires that human participants in experiments give informed consent and was adopted as part of the 1949 Geneva Conventions (
here ), so breaking the code would constitute a war crime (
here ).
The COVID-19 vaccines are not human medical experiments. On Aug 23, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (
here). Moderna’s vaccine has been approved for emergency use since Dec. 18, 2020 (
here) and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine since Feb. 27, 2021 (
here).
Reuters has previously debunked claims that the COVID-19 vaccines are experimental,
here and
here .
VERDICT:
Missing context. The Nuremberg Code is specific to medical experiments on humans and does not apply to public health measures such as vaccine mandates, as the COVID-19 vaccine is not experimental.
Social media users are mentioning the Nuremberg code, a set of medical experimentation guidelines set after World War Two, and falsely claiming that public health measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic violate the code as the vaccine is experimental.
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“The Nuremberg Code relates to research, where the emphasis of informed consent requirements is on preventing the research participants from being used as a means to an end,”
Emma Cave, a professor of healthcare law at Durham University in England,
told Full Fact, an independent fact-checking organization in the United Kingdom.
Americans who receive the COVID-19 vaccines are not participating in an experiment. Plus, the Nuremberg Code has not been adopted as law in the United States.
Requiring COVID-19 vaccination does\u00a0not violate the Nuremberg Code because the vaccines aren't experimental.
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