tl;dr?
Revisiting the moral obligation to vaccinate.
Below, I will highlight what I believe to be specific shortcomings in the article:
The reader is given imprecise information about the risk of COVID by failing to distinguish between the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) of the young and the elderly.
It does not properly consider other legitimate epidemiological responses, like the Swedish approach and therefore creates a narrow epidemiological response focused on vaccination.
It does not substantiate its claims of COVID vaccine efficacy.
It neglects to acknowledge psychological effects of the social ostracization of those who do not vaccinate.
That article had concluded:
Halakha permits, encourages, and likely even obligates Rachel to get a COVID-19 vaccination for herself and her children in order to protect herself and others from infection, help create herd immunity, and end the pandemic. Similarly, schools and communities should require a COVID-19 vaccination despite parents’ reluctance. We believe that failure to vaccinate violates the prohibition to stand idly by another’s blood.
We hope that a safe and effective vaccine will be developed and disseminated in the very near future. It is our best hope to alleviate the worldwide suffering and to arrest the horrific death toll brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. When it does arrive, we feel that it is morally obligatory and halakhically mandated that people accept the vaccine.
Seems that they will respond to this letter tomorrow.