Mere rhetoric? Using solidarity as a moral guide for deliberations on border closures, border reopenings and travel restrictions in the age of COVID-19
Bibliographic record
Abstract
### Summary box > Every government is responsible for, and accountable to, its own people. But Member States can only truly keep their own people safe if they are accountable to each other at the global level. > > - Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 74th World Health Assembly, 31 May 20211 As we enter the second half of 2021, the global health community continues to be vexed by the following question: what justifies states’ continued use of international travel restrictions, including border closures, during the COVID-19 pandemic? The corollary to this question is: with declining case counts in a handful of countries and more than 2.25 billion vaccines administered globally, at what point, and under what conditions, is the reopening of state borders and the reduction of travel restrictions justified? The answers to these two questions are multifaceted and includes being clear on a country or region’s epidemiology and the legal obligations of states. However, answering these questions must also balance ethical values that are often implicit and underpin these scientific and legal deliberations. Arguably, the primary ethical challenge in this context is upholding the right of sovereign states to protect their residents and reduce the risk of spreading SARS-CoV-2 while respecting the generally accepted …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".