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The Ethics of Crossing State Lines For A COVID-19 Vaccine, quoting Center faculty member Michael Deem, NPR-WESA, March 29, 2021 |
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Undocumented Immigrants and Covid-19 Vaccination by Mark A. Rothstein and Christine N. Coughlin, arguing that everyone’s self-interest supports universal vaccination including undocumented immigrants, March 8, 2021 |
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Working Around the System: Vaccine Navigators and Vaccine Equity by Nancy Berlinger and Jeanne Marie Mirabella, March 5, 2021 |
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Whose Underlying Conditions Count for Priority in Getting a Covid Vaccine? by Liz Bowen in Scientific American, arguing that rare diseases have been neglected in CDC guidelines, February 6, 2021 |
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Weighted Lotteries and the Allocation of Scarce Medications for Covid‐19 by Lynn A. Jansen and Steven Wall, The Hastings Center Report, February 25, 2021 |
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Should Covid Vaccination Schedules Deviate from the Status Quo–as a Last Resort? by Nina Shevzov-Zebrun, Arthur Caplan and Brendan Parent, February 1, 2021 |
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Ethics Supports Seeking Population Immunity, Not Immunizing Priority Groups by Michael DeVita and Lisa S. Parker, January 26, 2021 |
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Ethical Challenges in the Middle Tier f Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation: Guidance for Organizational Decision-Making from The Hastings Center, focused on the ethics of vaccine distribution to those in the 1b and 1c categories, also considers vaccination and health justice, January 15, 2021 |
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Recommendations for Prioritization and Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccine in Prisons and Jails, a brief white paper issued December 16, 2020 |
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Prioritizing the 1a: Ethically Allocating Scarce Covid Vaccines to Health Care Workers addresses how to allocate vaccine among healthcare workers given that hospitals will not receive a sufficient allotment for all, December 16, 2020 |
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On December 6, 2020, The New York Times, reported on the challenge the CDC faced in determining who should receive the second round of vaccine doses; see The Elderly vs. Essential Workers: Who Should Get the Coronavirus Vaccine First?. The Times is collecting its reporting on the vaccines here |
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Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccination for people with severe mental illness, a perspective from an interdisciplinary group in Belgium, November 1, 2020 |
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Is It Lawful and Ethical to Prioritize Racial Minorities for COVID-19 Vaccines? concludes that a “vaccine distribution formula, therefore, could lawfully prioritize populations based on factors like geography, socioeconomic status, and housing density that would favor racial minorities de facto, but not explicitly include race,” in JAMA, October 2020 |
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Rationing of civilian COVID-19 vaccines while supplies are limited by University of Pittsburgh Department of Family Medicine faculty Richard Zimmerman and Jeanette South-Paul, with co-author Gregory Poland, September 7, 2020 |
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Why COVID-19 vaccines need to prioritize ‘superspreaders’, by two economists and a data scientist, writing for the Conversation, September 3, 2020 |
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Who Gets the Covid-19 Vaccine First? Here’s One Idea, by Gina Kolata, quotes UPMC Endowed Chair for Ethics in Critical Care Medicine Doug White and presents proposals for a weighted lottery to allocate scarce vaccine, New York Times, July 23, 2020 |
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The line is forming for a COVID-19 vaccine. Who should be at the front? Discusses scientific and ethical considerations in the future allocation of scarce COVID-19 vaccines, Science, June 29, 2020 |
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Vaccine Rationing and the Urgency of Social Justice in the Covid‐19 Response, by Harald Schmidt in The Hastings Center Report, argues that “ethical, epidemiological, and economic reasons demand that rationing approaches give priority to groups who have been structurally and historically disadvantaged, even if this means that overall life years gained may be lower,” May 28, 2020 |