, which deals specifically with the issue of Covid-19 vaccines.
B. On vaccines
Fundamental principles and values
1. On several occasions, Pope Francis has affirmed the need to make the now imminent Covid-19 vaccines
available and accessible to all, avoiding “pharmaceutical marginality”: “
if there is the possibility of treating a disease with a drug, this should be available to everyone, otherwise an injustice is created”.
[1] In his recent
[2] the Pope stated that vaccines, if they are “to illuminate and bring hope to all, need to be available to all… especially for the most vulnerable and needy of all regions of the planet”. These principles of justice, solidarity and inclusiveness, must be the basis of any specific and concrete intervention in response to the pandemic. The Pope even talked about it in the Catechesis during the General Audience of 19 August 2020, offering some criteria “for choosing which industries to be helped: those which contribute to t