Bioethics.net and the American Journal of Bioethics have assembled a bioethics toolkit for people dealing with COVID-19. We have a collection of important blogs from around the internet that you can find here. We also highly recommending our growing catalog of our original blog posts by leading scholars writing on bioethics in pandemics. Other compendium resources
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by Joseph Stramondo, PhD Bioethicists and physicians scrambling to develop triage protocols for the COVID-19 crisis might have been surprised that counsel from Self Advocates in Leadership (SAIL), Disability Rights Washington (DRW), and The Arc of the United States (The Arc) filed a complaint recently with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) over their concerns regarding disability discrimination in some of these protocols.…
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CRUCIAL: How to navigate a public health emergency legally/ethically - Qs&As for responding to #COVID19, lead @LawrenceGostin, director @WHO, @GeorgetownLaw, @ONeillInstitute, editor @JAMA_current. #coronavirus @ANANursingWorld @HMSbioethics #medtwitter
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As the number of #coronavirus cases surges past 60,000 in New York, #bioethics experts @ArthurCaplan @parowol and others discuss the difficult resource allocation decisions ahead https://t.co/ncrCEjAIDh
India's #coronavirus response has led to one of the biggest migrations in India's modern history, as hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers have begun long journeys on foot to get home, having been rendered homeless and jobless by a nationwide lockdown https://t.co/vBoH3xTRDY
As the US was succumbing to an addiction epidemic, the Johnson & Johnson companies became the leading maker of narcotics for popular opioids, a dominance achieved through decades of innovation, navigation of U.S. drug policy, and the cultivation of poppies https://t.co/sNwdlpFu6h
Should scientists infect healthy people with the coronavirus to test vaccines? https://t.co/vB7PIbYoZA. Yes but only shows safety. Speeds things up a tiny bit
