Are the measures to make COVID-19 vaccine mandatory in Brazil reasonable and proportionate?

Abstract

ABSTRACT This is an essay based on a court decision handed down by the Court of Justice of the State of Santa Catarina, Brasil, that released a municipal teacher from vaccination. The injunction in a writ of mandamus was overturned at the higher court through an interlocutory appeal authored by the State Prosecutor´s Office. This essay discusses the grounds listed by the judge for granting the injunction and the arguments presented by the appellant, while making an analysis from the point of view of public health and health law, in the light of the decision of the Supreme Court on reasonableness and proportionality of the mandatory vaccine.