About the Authors

Amelia Fiske

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.fiske@tum.de

Affiliation Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Franziska Schönweitz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Johanna Eichinger

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Bettina Zimmermann

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nora Hangel

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Anna Sierawska

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Stuart McLennan

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Alena Buyx

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

No author has a COI. Prof. Buyx was an author of the position paper published by the Joint Working Group of Members of the Standing Committee on Vaccination, the German Ethics Council and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.