When vaccination is a ‘crime’

For his sound ethical reasoning, Hasan Gokal was fired and faces criminal prosecution

On December 29 last year, Hasan Gokal, the medical director of the Covid-19 response team in Harris County, Texas (which includes Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States by population), was supervising the administration of the Moderna vaccine, mostly to emergency workers. The vaccine comes in vials containing eleven doses. A vial, once opened, expires in six hours and the unused vaccine must then be thrown away.