And today I'm gonna talk about the ethics of vaccine allocation. I have three goals. First, I want to explain where explicit thinking about ethics and ethical principles has shaped the actual vaccine ...
How can we apply ethical principles to the allocation of the COVID-19 vaccine to guide us towards a more equal and fair approach? Nicole Boardman ’22 is a junior majoring in biology and a 2020-21 ...
In the midst of pandemics, healthcare workers face a wide array of pressures, including the pressure to ensure they are making ethical decisions with regard to resources in the face of a crisis. In an ...
As health care institutions near the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are grappling with how to proactively and ethically distribute scarce health care resources to treat the sick. The news is rife ...
In the event of a likely scarcity of COVID-19 vaccines, a framework must be developed to inform who should get priority. COVID-19 has infected over 8 million residents of the United States and has ...
The COVID-19 pandemic will likely recede only through development and distribution of an effective vaccine. Although there are many unknowns surrounding COVID-19 vaccine development, vaccine demand ...
Editor’s Note: Ira Bedzow, Ph.D., is an associate professor of medicine in the School of Medicine, the director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program, and head of the UNESCO Chair in ...
Nicole Boardman ’22 is a junior majoring in biology and a 2020-21 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. On December 14th, the first doses of the COVID ...
In the event of a likely scarcity of COVID-19 vaccines, a framework must be developed to inform who should get priority. To shed light on the ethical complexities of COVID-19 vaccine allocation, we ...