Bee quotes Professor Ikemoto in story about possibility of mandatory COVID-19 vaccines

Professor Lisa Ikemoto spoke to The Sacramento Bee’s Dale Kasler for a story about the possibility of making COVID-19 vaccines mandatory, after so many frontline workers have decided to skip them.

Hospitals, as employers, “don’t want to enforce a rule against the will of a significant number of people,” Ikemoto said. Read the story

Lisa Ikemoto, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, has written extensively on genetic and reproductive technology, the regulation of fertility and pregnancy, and race and gender disparities in health care. Her current work examines emerging issues in regenerative medicine, including stem cell research, and the human tissues market.