COVID-19

Journal articles

Abbasi K (2020) Covid-19: questions of conscience and duty for scientific advisers BMJ 369: m2102

Arie S (2020) Covid-19: can France’s ethical support units help doctors make challenging decisions? BMJ369: m1291

Benfer E, Mohapatra S, Wiley L et al. (2020) Health justice strategies to combat the pandemic: eliminating discrimination, poverty, and health inequity during and after COVID-19 (SSRN), and forthcoming in Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics

Berger ZD, Evans NG, Phelan AL et al. (2020) Covid-19: control measures must be equitable and inclusive BMJ 368: m1141

Blumenthal-Barby J, Boyd K, Earp BD et al. (2020) Pandemic medical ethics Journal of Medical Ethics 46(6): 353

Bollyky TJ, Gostin LO, and Hamburg MA (2020) The equitable distribution of COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines JAMA

Boyd K (2020) Ethics in a time of coronavirus Journal of Medical Ethics 46(5): 285-6

Bruno B, and Rose S (2020) Patients left behind: ethical challenges in caring for indirect victims of the Covid-19 pandemic Hastings Center Report 50(4): 19-23

Chappell RY, and Singer P (2020) Pandemic ethics: the case for risky research Research Ethics: 1747016120931920

Chiriboga D, Garay J, Buss P et al. (2020) Health inequity during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cry for ethical global leadership The Lancet

Dunn M, Sheehan M, Hordern J et al. (2020) ‘Your country needs you’: the ethics of allocating staff to high-risk clinical roles in the management of patients with COVID-19 Journal of Medical Ethics 46(7): 436

Emanuel EJ, Persad G, Upshur R et al. (2020) Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the time of Covid-19 New England Journal of Medicine

Evans NG (2020) Covid-19: the ethics of clinical research in quarantine BMJ 369: m2060

Fink S (2020) Ethical dilemmas in Covid-19 medical care: is a problematic triage protocol better or worse than no protocol at all? The American Journal of Bioethics 20(7): 1-5

Fritz Z, Huxtable R, Ives J et al. (2020) Ethical road map through the covid-19 pandemic BMJ 369: m2033

Ganguli-Mitra A, Young I, Engelmann L et al. (2020) Segmenting communities as public health strategy: a view from the social sciences and humanities Wellcome Open Research 5

Gopichandran V, and Subramaniam S (2020) Response to Covid-19: an ethical imperative to build a resilient health system in India Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

Gostin LO, Friedman EA, and Wetter SA (2020) Responding to Covid-19: how to navigate a public health emergency legally and ethically Hastings Center Report 50(2): 8-12

Herreros B, Gella P, and Real de Asua D (2020) Triage during the COVID-19 epidemic in Spain: better and worse ethical arguments Journal of Medical Ethics 46(7): 455

Holm S (2020) Controlled human infection with SARS-CoV-2 to study COVID-19 vaccines and treatments: bioethics in Utopia Journal of Medical Ethics 46: 569

Huxtable R (2020) COVID-19: where is the national ethical guidance? BMC Medical Ethics 21(1): 32

Kumar NK, and Muthuswamy V (2020) Fostering ethical biomedical and health research in India during the COVID-19 pandemic Research Ethics: 1747016120941632

Lewnard JA, and Lo NC (2020) Scientific and ethical basis for social-distancing interventions against COVID-19 The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Liddell K, Skopek JM, Palmer S et al. (2020) Who gets the ventilator? Important legal rights (SSRN), and forthcoming in JME

London AJ, and Kimmelman J (2020) Against pandemic research exceptionalism Science 368(6490): 476

Mannelli C (2020) Whose life to save? Scarce resources allocation in the COVID-19 outbreak Journal of Medical Ethics 46(6): 364

McConnell D (2020) Balancing the duty to treat with the duty to family in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Medical Ethics 46(6): 360

Parker MJ, Fraser C, Abeler-Dörner L et al. (2020) Ethics of instantaneous contact tracing using mobile phone apps in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Medical Ethics: medethics-2020-106314

Persad G, and Emanuel EJ (2020) The ethics of COVID-19 immunity-based licenses (“immunity passports”) JAMA

Prachand VN, Milner R, Angelos P et al. (2020) Medically necessary, time-sensitive procedures: scoring system to ethically and efficiently manage resource scarcity and provider risk during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Pratt B, Cheah PY, and Marsh V (2020) Solidarity and community engagement in global health research The American Journal of Bioethics 20(5): 43-56

Pūras D, de Mesquita JB, Cabal L et al. The right to health must guide responses to COVID-19 The Lancet

Rosenbaum L (2020) Facing Covid-19 in Italy – ethics, logistics, and therapeutics on the epidemic’s front line New England Journal of Medicine

Savulescu J, Cameron J, and Wilkinson D (2020) Equality or utility? Ethics and law of rationing ventilators British Journal of Anaesthesia

Savulescu J, Persson I, and Wilkinson D (2020) Utilitarianism and the pandemic Bioethics

Schaefer G, Tam C, Savulescu J et al. (2020) COVID-19 vaccine development: time to consider SARS-CoV-2 challenge studies? SSRN

Schmidt H (2020) Vaccine rationing and the urgency of social justice in the Covid-19 response Hastings Center Report 50(3): 46-9

Schuklenk U (2020) What healthcare professionals owe us: why their duty to treat during a pandemic is contingent on personal protective equipment (PPE) Journal of Medical Ethics 46(7): 432

Solnica A, Barski L, and Jotkowitz A (2020) Allocation of scarce resources during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Jewish ethical perspective Journal of Medical Ethics 46(7): 444

Spitale G (2020) COVID-19 and the ethics of quarantine: a lesson from the Eyam plague Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Truog RD, Mitchell C, and Daley GQ (2020) The toughest triage - allocating ventilators in a pandemic New England Journal of Medicine

Turnham HL, Dunn M, Hill E et al. (2020) Consent in the time of COVID-19 Journal of Medical Ethics 46(9): 565

Wang EA, Zenilman J, and Brinkley-Rubinstein L (2020) Ethical considerations for COVID-19 vaccine trials in correctional facilities JAMA

Webb J, Shah LD, and Lynch HF (2020) Ethically allocating COVID-19 drugs via pre-approval access and emergency use authorization The American Journal of Bioethics 20(9): 4-17

White DB, and Lo B (2020) A framework for rationing ventilators and critical care beds during the COVID-19 pandemic JAMA

Wilkinson D (2020) ICU triage in an impending crisis: uncertainty, pre-emption and preparation Journal of Medical Ethics 46(5): 287-8

Zhang H, Shao F, Gu J et al. (2020) Ethics committee reviews of applications for research studies at 1 hospital in China during the 2019 novel coronavirus epidemic JAMA