“As with social distancing orders, we can expect that the advent of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will spark intense clashes of feeling about what people owe to one another in the fight against the pandemic,” Mello and co-authors write in the article, “Ensuring Uptake of Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2.”

“Careful deliberation now about state vaccination policy can help ensure that we have a strategy when the breakthrough comes,” they write.