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A COVID-19 vaccine: who gets it first and how do we decide?
"Anyone who's ever watched a science fiction movie knows, when the mayor bursts into the lab and demands results right now because the Governor is on the line, something Bad is going to happen in the lab. Luckily for us, despite the…
Joel Wu on Decision-making During a Pandemic
Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C is the Center for Bioethics' Clinical Ethics Adjunct professor and senior lecturer in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.
On June 12, he…
Neighbors, June 9: "We knew this was going to happen!"
Sometimes you just can't win. As public health officials watched the COVID-19 pandemic play out on the east and west coasts, they encouraged us here in the Midwest to social distance and wear masks. Now, when we're not swamped with a wave…
Explaining pandemic triage: When a picture is worth 3000 words
"Ethics and its implications for healthcare delivery under constraints of scarcity are not simple concepts, even for those working within the hea
Clap all you like now, but workers with meaningful jobs deserve to be valued in a post-coronavirus economy too
"The coronavirus recession has laid bare how illogically the U.S. labor market values work that matters. In the United States, as elsewhere, citizens have been extolling the role of essential workers – such as nurses, grocery suppliers and…
Minnesota grapples with promise of COVID-19 drug in limited supply, unknown cost
"This round of medication is on the house. The next one will be, too. But eventually, California's Gilead Sciences will start charging Americans for remdesivir, the drug that recently became the only therapeutic agent shown to cut down the…
Clinic Pushes Inhaled Stem Cell Tx, Delivered to Your Door
"In the age of social distancing, one stem cell clinic has decided to make its products -- which it strongly suggests can prevent COVID-19 -- available for home delivery. This procedure was invented during the coronavirus outbreak so…
Shady Stem Cell Clinics Are Peddling 'Immune-Boosting' Covid-19 Treatments
Clinics both in and out off the U.S. are making stem cells as a preventative, 'immune-boosting' treatment against the coronavirus, with little to no evidence to back up their claims." Leigh Turner, PhD is quoted.
Access the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics for Free: Includes chapter from Director Debra DeBruin, PhD
Learning about Public Health Ethics just got easier: In light of the current pandemic, the Oxford University Press has made all 73 chapters of
"Frightening and discouraging" - no guarantees of COVID-19 immunity
"Last week's announcement by the World Health Organization that "there's no evidence shows that having coronavirus prevents a second infection" is a big deal, because almost all of our ideas of how "moving forward" looks are predicated on…