“It is that they preserve health system capacity and decrease collective social costs by significantly reducing rates of hospitalization and serious illness.”

What is the limiting principle with this rationale? Mandates for influenza vaccines? How about pneumococcal vaccines for the elderly? Mandatory suboxone therapy for opioid addicts? Or, reductio ad absurdum, mandatory gastric bypass surgery for those with a BMI over 40.

At least with those examples we have longitudinal safety data.