Jain Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccination
Protect other lives.
According to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s “Immunizations and Religion” project, despite the emphasis in Jainism on non-violence towards all living beings—a teaching that includes microscopic organisms—vaccination is permitted “because this destruction of microorganisms, even though regretted, is necessary to protect other lives” (https://www.vumc.org/health-wellness/news-resource-articles/immunizations-and-religion).
