Combatting Covid-19. Or, “All Persons Are Equal but Some Persons Are More Equal than Others?”

Vaccines, when available, will prove to be crucial in the fight against Covid-19. All societies will face acute dilemmas in allocating scarce lifesaving resources in the form of vaccines for Covid-19. The author proposes The Value of Lives Principle as a just and workable plan for equitable and effi...

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Autor principal: Harris, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
Materias:
Breaking Bioethics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8144832/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33222708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S096318012000095X
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spelling pubmed-81448322021-05-25 Combatting Covid-19. Or, “All Persons Are Equal but Some Persons Are More Equal than Others?” Harris, John Camb Q Healthc Ethics Breaking Bioethics Vaccines, when available, will prove to be crucial in the fight against Covid-19. All societies will face acute dilemmas in allocating scarce lifesaving resources in the form of vaccines for Covid-19. The author proposes The Value of Lives Principle as a just and workable plan for equitable and efficient access. After describing what the principle entails, the author contrasts the advantage of this approach with other current proposals such as the Fair Priority Model. Cambridge University Press 2020-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8144832/ /pubmed/33222708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S096318012000095X Text en © Cambridge University Press 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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