Courts in Spain Order Forced COVID-19 Vaccination of Incapacitated Nursing Home Residents
GRANADA, ANDALUSIA, SPAIN. FEBRUARY 16TH, 2021. Nurse preparing the Covid-19 vaccine for injection to the elderly. Copyright Javier Sanchez Mingorance.
by Carolyn Hendler, JD
In what appears to be the first case of a court ordered forced COVID-19 vaccination, a court in Galicia, Spain sided with a nursing home to require an incapacitated women to get the COVID-19 vaccine over her families objections.
Even though the Spanish government has maintained that the novel vaccine would be voluntary, the nursing home effectively took custody of the woman, who suffered from dementia, and vaccinated her without the informed consent of her family.