What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines
What can the New York City Marathon teach those hoping to increase global vaccine equity? Quite a lot, it turns out.
Resource Allocation
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Read more: Litigation Challenges Prioritization of Race or Ethnicity in Allocating COVID-19 Therapies Litigation Challenges Prioritization of Race or Ethnicity in Allocating COVID-19 Therapies
Within a few weeks after the New York guidelines were issued, the federal lawsuits commenced.
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Read more: Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics
Research funding contracts can help to safeguard against inequities in global allocation and distribution of lifesaving diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines.
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Read more: How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies
The same ethical goals identified for vaccine allocation are also relevant for COVID-19 therapy allocation.
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Read more: Top Health Considerations in the European Commission’s ‘Harmonised Rules on Artificial Intelligence’ Top Health Considerations in the European Commission’s ‘Harmonised Rules on Artificial Intelligence’
On April 21, 2021, the European Commission released a “first-ever” legal framework on artificial intelligence.
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Read more: Regulatory Gap in Health Tech: Resource Allocation Algorithms Regulatory Gap in Health Tech: Resource Allocation Algorithms
Resource allocation algorithms have received less regulatory attention than clinical decision-making algorithms, but nevertheless pose similar concerns.
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Read more: Should Smokers be Prioritized for COVID Vaccine? Should Smokers be Prioritized for COVID Vaccine?
Should smoking be among the pre-existing health risks that qualify people for priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine?
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Read more: What You Should Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine What You Should Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine
Carmel Shachar, executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center, talks about the COVID-19 vaccine and who is likely to get it first.
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Read more: From “A Spoonful of Sugar” to Operation Warp Speed: COVID-19 Vaccines and Their Metaphors From “A Spoonful of Sugar” to Operation Warp Speed: COVID-19 Vaccines and Their Metaphors
We must remain cognizant of the many ways metaphors may distort, divide, or misrepresent important details.
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Read more: The Harms of Abortion Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic The Harms of Abortion Restrictions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
These policies restricting abortion are unlikely to conserve PPE, and more importantly, they mischaracterize the nature and importance of abortions.
