Event Description Danielle Allen, Ganesh Sitaraman, and E. Glen Weyl will discuss pandemic resilience and testing in this conversation on the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics’ COVID-19 white paper series. The discussion will be moderated by Carmel Shachar. In order to successfully combat the COVID-19 epidemic, we need to thoughtfully mobilize and utilize all…
Event Description Personal protective equipment or PPE has been a major topic of discussion across the nation. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major shortages of PPE and health care workers are being asked take care of patients with what some would argue is inadequate protection. The guidelines set by the CDC have changed and recommendations…
Event Description The COVID-19 Pandemic is raising difficult to answer questions regarding the allocation of scare resources, such as ventilators. Providers are struggling to triage access to ventilators ethically. Some have argued that we should consider health status and maximizing health outcomes. Others counter that using health status to determine access would discriminate against people…
By Alicia Ely Yamin and Ole F. Norheim Scholarly and official statements and publications regarding human rights during the current pandemic have largely reiterated the important lessons learned from HIV/AIDS, Zika and Ebola, such as: engagement with affected communities; combatting stigma and discrimination; ensuring access for the most vulnerable; accounting for gendered effects; and limiting…
