Vaccine allocation policies

In Making Vaccines Available to Other Countries Before Offering Domestic Booster Vaccinations G. Owen Schaefer, R. J. Leland, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel argue in favor of distributing covid vaccine doses to other countries before beginning booster campaigns in rich ones, August 2021
Bonnie Steinbock addresses The FDA and the Moral Distinction Between Killing and Letting Die that seems to have informed the FDA’s reluctance to quickly authorize COVID-19 vaccines for children under 12, August 2021   

COVID-19 ACIP Vaccine Recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, updated December 3 - March 2, 2021

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Ethical Principles for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, 2020 from the CDC, November 23, 2020

EtR Framework: Values, Acceptability and Feasibility Domains, the PowerPoint by the Ethics Subcommittee to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), 2020, is available to read online or for free download

September 24  Response from the Catholic Health Association of the United States to the discussion draft of  the National Academies Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine, reflecting its own Vaccine Equity and Catholic Principles for the Common Good, disseminated July 27, 2020

COVID-19 Vaccines: Resources for [Roman Catholic] Church Leaders from the Vatican COVID-19, March 2, 2021

Enhancing the WHO’s Proposed Framework for Distributing COVID-19 Vaccines Among Countries by Zeke Emanuel et al. suggests that adopting a “fair priority model” would make the WHO approach better achieve its own ethical goals, American Journal of Public Health, March 2021

An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation articulates the “fair priority model,” in Science, September 2020

ASHP principles for COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, Allocation, and Mass Immunization from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 2020

Interactive Vaccine Allocation Map, launched February 1, 2021, comparing 4 vaccine allocation scenarios county-by-county and demonstrating no allocation strategy is value neutral, from Columbia and Yale Mapping the New Politics of Care collaborative project

See How the Vaccine Rollout Is Going in Your County and State from the New York Times shows county-level vaccination levels based on data from the CDC, lists state eligibility requirements, and provides access to the Times other data-based graphics and maps (e.g., tracking cases, deaths, vaccines in stages of development)

CDC data on COVID-19, including vaccine distribution by manufacturer and jurisdiction, updated each Tuesday