Does vaccine ageism amount to gerontocide?

Gerontocide, listed in most dictionaries as the killing or euthanasia of older people, is an obscure term. It is sometimes referred to as senicide (with unfortunate associations to senility) or even grannicide.1 A search on MEDLINE produces a single hit: a German language paper on criminology published in 1989.2 Outside of the health sciences, the term has occasionally been applied to describe…

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