Bioethics
How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies
The same ethical goals identified for vaccine allocation are also relevant for COVID-19 therapy allocation.
How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies
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Govind Persad
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Empirical
Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited?
We think that off-label pediatric administration of approved COVID-19 vaccines should be left to individual risk-benefit judgments.
Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited?
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Behavioral Economics
Payments for COVID-19 Vaccination: Ethical and Legal Considerations
Should we pay people to receive COVID-19 vaccines? This post summarizes key ethical and legal considerations.
Payments for COVID-19 Vaccination: Ethical and Legal Considerations
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Health Law Policy
Can Vaccine Allocation Plans Legally Respond to Racial Disparities?
Can COVID-19 vaccine allocation legally recognize the outsized burden of cases and deaths that racial/ethnic minority communities have borne?
Can Vaccine Allocation Plans Legally Respond to Racial Disparities?
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Bioethics
Arizona’s Crisis Standards of Care and Fair Allocation of Resources During COVID-19
Arizona has done the right thing by adopting crisis standards of care instead of leaving these decisions about ventilators to be made ad hoc.
Arizona’s Crisis Standards of Care and Fair Allocation of Resources During COVID-19
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Bioethics
How Triage During COVID-19 Can be Fair to Patients with Disabilities
Triage policies that use medical evidence to save more lives are legal, ethical, and better for patients with disabilities than other approaches.
How Triage During COVID-19 Can be Fair to Patients with Disabilities
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Bioethics
Pandemic Guidelines, Not Changed Malpractice Rules, Are the Right Response to COVID-19
By Valerie Gutmann Koch, Govind Persad, and Wendy Netter Epstein On March 17, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Dr. Jeremy Faust, titled Make This Simple Change to Free Up Hospital Beds Now. In…
Pandemic Guidelines, Not Changed Malpractice Rules, Are the Right Response to COVID-19
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Global Health
Do Pharmaceutical Patents Generate Unique Global Health Duties?
By Govind Persad Imagine a Harvard MBA graduate trying to decide between jobs at Pfizer and at Snapchat. Both are immensely wealthy firms. Many of Pfizer’s products benefit global health. Snapchat’s are at best neutral…
Do Pharmaceutical Patents Generate Unique Global Health Duties?
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Advanced Care & Aging
What Should We Ask About Age-Based Criteria in Healthcare?
Age-based criteria can be not only legal but also ethically acceptable and even desirable.
What Should We Ask About Age-Based Criteria in Healthcare?
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Bioethics
Vulnerability, Coercion, and Undue Influence: From the Mud into the Muck?
By Govind Persad According to the NPRM, “the only vulnerability that needs to be considered is vulnerability to coercion or undue influence, and not other types of vulnerability.” It therefore replaces all standalone uses of “vulnerable” with…
Vulnerability, Coercion, and Undue Influence: From the Mud into the Muck?