Health ethics and the COVID-19 pandemic: Recent and relevant literature
Long-term care after the COVID-19 disaster: 3 promising ways to move forward
Armstrong P, Armstrong H, Choiniere J, Struthers J, Lowndes R. The Conversation. August 12, 2021.
Solitary death and new lifestyles during and after COVID-19: wearable devices and public health ethics.
Nakazawa E, Yamamoto K, London AJ. et al. BMC Med Ethics 22, 89. July 10, 2021. DOI: 10.1186/s12910-021-00657-9.
Vaccine passports and health disparities: a perilous journey.
Jecker N. Medethics. July 9, 2021. DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107491.
Relational autonomy: lessons from COVID-19 and twentieth-century philosophy.
Carlos Gómez-Vírseda & Rafael Amo Usanos, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, June 26, 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s11019-021-10035-2.
COVID-19 Medical-religious partnerships: implementation of a just-in-time COVID-19 training in Catholic schools.
Galiatsatos P, Soybel A, Bryan J. et al. Journal of Religion and Health. 60, 2362–2370. June 8, 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-021-01303-9.
Development of a scale to measure trust in public health authorities: Prevalence of trust and association with vaccination
Holroyd TA, Limaye RI, Gerber J, Rimal R, MusciI R, Brewer J. Journal of Health Communication. May 16, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2021.1927259.
The bioethics of loneliness
Lederman Z. Bioethics. Apr 7, 2021. PMID: 33829525 DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12870.
The role of clinical researchers during COVID-19: Balancing individual, scientific, and social benefits of research.
Oviedo D, Perez-Lao A, Villarreal A, Carreira M, Britton G. Frontiers in Public Health | Public Mental Health. April 7, 2021. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.638964.
Global equity in protection of pregnant frontline workers
Jaffe EF, Karron RA, Krubiner CB et al. [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Wellcome Open Res; 6:66. March 26, 2021. DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16548.1.
Long COVID and health inequities: The role of primary care.
Berger Z, De Jesus VA, Assoumou S, Greenhalgh T. The Milbank Quarterly. March 30, 2021. DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12505.
Invisible moral wounds of the COVID-19 pandemic: Are we experiencing moral injury?
Rushton CH, Turner K, Brock RN, Braxton JM. AACN Adv Crit Care. March 15, 2021. 32 (1): 119–125. DOI: 10.4037/aacnacc2021686.
Masks in Medicine: Metaphors and Morality.
Grubbs, L., Geller, G. J Med Humanit. March 8, 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s10912-020-09676-w.
Reimagining the role of school-Based health centers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jareatha N, Abdul-Raheem BS, Alice J, Liu BA, Megan E. Collins MD. Journal of School Health. March 2, 2021. DOI: 10.1111/josh.13000.
Immunity certification for COVID-19: ethical considerations.
Chuan Voo T, Reis A, Thomé B, WL Ho C, Tam C, Kelly-Cirino C, Emanuel E, Beca JP, Littler Katherine, Smith M, Parker M, Kass N, Gobat N, Lei R, Upshur R, Hursto S, Munsakap S. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 20-280701. February 9, 2021.
Equity in vaccination: A plan to work with communities of color toward COVID-19 recovery and beyond.
Schoch-Spana M, Brunson E, Hosangadi D, Long R, Ravi S, Taylor M, Trotochaud M, Veenema TG on behalf of the Working Group on Equity in COVID-19. February 09, 2021. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
An ethics framework for consolidating and prioritizing COVID-19 clinical trials.
Meyer MN, Gelinas L, Bierer BE, et al. Clinical Trials. February 2, 2021. DOI: 10.1177/1740774520988669.
The pandemic and the supply chain: Gaps in pharmaceutical production and distribution.
Socal M, Sharfstein JM, Greene J. January 28, 2021. American Journal of Public Health 0, e1_e5, DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306138.
Early warnings of COVID-19 outbreaks across Europe from social media.
Lopreite M, Panzarasa P, Puliga M, Riccaboni M. Scientific Reports 11, 2147. January 25, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81333-1.
HIV prevention research and COVID-19: putting ethics guidance to the test.
Rennie, S., Chege, W., Schrumpf, L.A. et al. BMC Med Ethics 22, 6. January 25, 2021. DOI: 10.1186/s12910-021-00575-w.
Without a trace: Why did corona apps fail?
White L, Van Basshuysen P. Journal of Medical ethics. January 8, 2021. DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2020-107061.
COVID-19 in the Americas and the erosion of human rights for the poor.
Hotez PJ, Huete-Perez JA, Bottazzi ME. Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases. December 18, 2020. e0008954. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008954.
Assessment of filled buprenorphine prescriptions for opioid use disorder during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
Nguyen TD, Gupta S, Ziedan E, et al. JAMA Intern Med. December 21, 2020. DOI: 0.1001/jamainternmed.2020.7497.
Enrolling Minors in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials.
Mintz K, Jardas E, Shah S, Grady C, Danis M, Wendler D. Pediatrics. December 2020, e2020040717; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2020-040717.
Social, financial and psychological stress during an emerging pandemic: observations from a population survey in the acute phase of COVID-19.
Robillard R, Saad M, Edwards J, et al. BMJ Open. November 25, 2020. DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043805.
Special Double Issue on Covid-19.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. September/December 2020. Volume 30 – Issues 3-4.
Nurses’ role in providing comprehensive communication, prognostication, and palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Koch A, Mantzouris S. Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing: December 2020 – Volume 22 – Issue 6 – p 442-446. doi: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000000703.
COVID long-hauler
Golen J. Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health magazine. November 4, 2020.
Reasons to accept vaccine refusers in primary care
Navin M, Wasserman J, Opel D. Pediatrics. November 2020, e20201801; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2020-1801.
The enemy who sealed the world: effects quarantine due to the COVID-19 on sleep quality, anxiety, and psychological distress in the Italian population.
Casagrande M, Favieri F, Tambelli R, Forteb G. Sleep Medicine, November 2020; Vol. 75 pp. 12-20. DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2020.05.011.
Opinion: For now, it’s unethical to use human challenge studies for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development.
Henry LM, Mastroianni AC, Chen WH, Macklin R. PNAS. October 29, 2020. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2021189117.
Geopolitics of power and knowledge in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Decolonial Reflections on a Global Crisis.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni SJ. Journal of Developing Societies. October 26, 2020. DOI: 10.1177/0169796X20963252.
Research and ethics in the time of COVID-19.
Hsu N. The Neuroethics Blog. October 20, 2020.
Exploring anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability in the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank Group, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Kohler JC, Bowra A. Globalization and Health. October 20, 2020. 16, 101. DOI: 10.1186/s12992-020-00629-5.
Ethics of codes and codes of ethics. When is it ethical to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Kopar PK, Brown DE, Turnbull IR. Annals of Surgery. October 14, 2020. DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004318.
Lessons We’ve Learned — Covid-19 and the Undocumented Latinx Community.
Page K, Flores-Miller A. The New England Journal of Medecine. October 7, 2020. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2024897.
Access and enrollment in safety net programs in the wake of COVID-19: A national cross-sectional survey.
Saloner B, Gollust SE, Planalp C, Blewett L. PLOS One. October 6, 2020. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240080.
Clinical risk factors for COVID-19 among people with substance use disorders.
Wen H, Barnett ML, Saloner B. Psychatric Services. October 6, 2020. DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.202000215.
Lost in translation: The role of interpreters on labor and delivery.
Le Neveu M, Berger Z, Gross M. Health Equity. September 30, 2020. DOI: 10.1089/heq.2020.0016.
Lessons learnt from easing COVID-19 restrictions: An analysis of countries and regions in Asia Pacific and Europe.
Han E, Tan MMJ, Turk E, Sridhar D, Leung GM, Shibuya K, et al. The Lancet. September 24, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32007-9.
Lost in translation: The role of interpreters on labor and delivery.
Le Neveu M, Berger Z, Gross M. Health Equity. September 30, 2020. DOI: 10.1089/heq.2020.0016.
Community health workers and COVID-19 — Addressing social determinants of health in times of crisis and beyond.
Peretz PJ, Islam N, Matiz LA. The New England Journal of Medicine. September 23, 2020. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2022641.
Critical care guidance for tracheostomy care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A global, multidisciplinary approach.
Pandian V, et al. American Journal of Critical Care. September 15, 2020. DOI: 10.4037/ajcc2020561.
COVID-19 expert reality check.
Global Health Now (GHN). September 8, 2020 (last update). John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Conséquences de la COVID-19 : Étude de l’impact des taux d’intérêt négatifs
Magnan M, Normand R, Pougom GN, Noussa HN et Fan H. Cirano. September 3, 2020.
L’inflammation : le facteur clé qui explique les formes graves de Covid-19
Cruickshank S. The Conversation. September 1, 2020.
How many people has the coronavirus killed?
Viglione G. Nature. September 1, 2020.
Early effects of COVID-19 on programs providing medications for opioid use disorder in jails and prisons.
Bandara S, Kennedy-Hendricks A, Merritt S, Barry C, Saloner B. Journal of Addiction Medicine. August 27, 2020. doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000718.
A dilemma for ‘long-haulers’: Many can’t prove they ever had Covid-19.
Tuller, D. STAT. August 26, 2020.
Prognosis for rural hospitals worsens with pandemic.
Tribble, SJ, KHN. August 26, 2020.
Four scenarios on how we might develop immunity to Covid-19.
Branswell H. STAT. August 25, 2020.
Risk for severe COVID-19 illness among teachers and adults living with school-aged children.
Gaffney AW, Himmelstein D, Woolhandler S. Annals of Internal Medicine. August 21, 2020. DOI: 10.7326/M20-5413.
How schools can reopen safely during the pandemic.
Mallapaty S. Nature. August 18, 2020. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-020-02403-4.
Trust, Fear and Solidarity Will Determine the Success of a COVID Vaccine.
Allen A. KHN. August 17, 2020.
Did Russia’s most influential bioethicist get a coronavirus vaccine?
Moreno JD. Covid-19, Hastings Bioethics Forum. August 17, 2020.
COVID isolation, anxiety ‘really reinforce’ eating disorders.
Kanne J. Georgia Health News. August 13, 2020.
COVID-19 has exposed the limits of philanthropy.
Saifer A. The Conversation. August 13, 2020.
Socio-ethical dimension of COVID-19 prevention mechanism—The triumph of care ethics.
Dine, C. Asian Bioethics Review. August 12, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s41649-020-00143-1.
The Covid19 outbreak: a catalyst for digitization in African countries.
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Video series: Are coronavirus contact tracing apps safe?
Véliz C. Practical Ethics. August 7, 2020.
Ethics of COVID-19-related school closures.
Silverman, M., Sibbald, R. & Stranges, S. Ethics of COVID-19-related school closures. Can J Public Health. August 7, 2020. DOI: 10.17269/s41997-020-00396-1.
Attacks on public health officials during COVID-19.
Mello M, Greene J, Sharfstein JM. JAMA. August 5, 2020. DOI:10.1001/jama.2020.14423.
Culture matters in communicating the global response to COVID-19.
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COVID-19 and drug shortages: A call to action.
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From ‘brain fog’ to heart damage, COVID-19’s lingering problems alarm scientists.
Couzin-FrankelJul J. Science. July 31, 2020.
COVID-19 implications for seafood and nutrition: Keep an eye on production and trade.
Love D, Thorne-Lyman A, Nussbaumer L, Bloem M. Nutrition Connect. July 29, 2020.
Desperate Times: Protecting the Public From Research Without Consent or Oversight During Public Health Emergencies.
Beach MC, Lederman HM, Singleton M, Brower RG, Carrese J, Ford DE, Hansoti B, Hendrix CW, Jorgensen EV, Moore RD, Rocca PR, Zenilman JM. July 27, 2020. Annals of Internal Medicine. DOI: 10.7326/M20-4631.
Shoring up the safety net for children in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cheng T, Moon M, Artman M & On behalf of the Pediatric Policy Council. Pediatric Research. July 26, 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41390-020-1071-7.
Let Medical Students Volunteer in General Practice During Pandemic
O’Shea D. Medscape News UK. July 24, 2020.
Underprotected clinicians: ‘We are tired of advocating’.
Whyte J, Choo E. DISCLOSURES/Medscape. July 24, 2020.
Dramatic interventions in the tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rushton C, Doerries B, Greenee J,Gellerac J. The Lancet. July 23, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31641-X.
Applying E-PAUSE to Ethical Challenges in a Pandemic.
Rushton C, Reller N, Swoboda S. AACN Adv Crit Care e1–e6. July 22, 2020. DOI: 10.4037/aacnacc2020216.
What Do We Know About Children and COVID-19?
Willingham E. Medscape Medical News. July 21, 2020.
The climate crisis and covid-19 — A major threat to the pandemic response
Salas RN, Shultz JM, Solomon CG. The New England Journal of Medicine. July 15, 2020. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2022011.
The public’s role in COVID-19 vaccination: Planning recommendations informed by design thinking and the social, behavioral, and communication sciences.
Schoch-Spana M, Brunson E, Long R, Ravi S, Ruth A, Trotochaud M on behalf of the Working Group on Readying Populations for COVID-19 Vaccine. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. July 9, 2020.
Does COVID‐19 really call for an overhaul of nursing curricula or promoting the power, status and representation of nursing?
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Patients who refuse to wear a mask: Responses that won’t get you sued.
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COVID-19 cases and deaths in federal and state prisons
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Covid-19 : le prix d’une vie et les choix de société lors d’une deuxième vague
Vaillancourt F. The Conversation. July 2, 2020.
Distributing a COVID-19 vaccine raises complex ethical issues.
Faden R. HUB. July 1, 2020.
Can telemental health help achieve equity during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Senghor, S, Racine E. The Neuroethics Blog. June 30, 2020.
After the surge: Prioritizing the backlog of delayed hospital procedures.
Craig JM, Aulisio MP and May T. The Hasting Center. June 19, 2020.
Dying individuals and suffering populations: applying a population-level bioethics lens to palliative care in humanitarian contexts: before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wynne KJ, Petrova M, Coghlan R. Journal of Medical Ethics. June 19, 2020. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105943.
Dying individuals and suffering populations: applying a population-level bioethics lens to palliative care in humanitarian contexts: before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wynne KJ, Petrova M, Coghlan R. Institute of Medical Ethics. June 18, 2020.
Covid-19 could accelerate the robot takeover of human jobs.
Hayasakiarchive, E. MIT Technology Review. June 17, 2020.
Relational ethical approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jeffrey DI. Journal of Medical Ethics. June 10, 2020. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106264.
Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe.
Flaxman S, Mishra S, Gandy A. et al. Nature. June 8, 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2405-7.
The Essential Workers Project.
A collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the University of Colorado Boulder’s Masters of the Environment program. June 2020.
Doctors Wonder What to Do When Recovered COVID-19 Patients Still Test Positive.
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Individual Freedom or Public Health? A False Choice in the Covid Era.
Cohen J. Hastings Bioethics Forum. June 9, 2020.
Ethical challenges arising in the COVID-19 pandemic: An overview from the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) Task Force.
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Preparing for COVID-19 related drug shortages.
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Savulescu J, Persson I, Wilkinson D. Bioethics. May 20, 2020. doi: 10.1111/bioe.12771.
Covid-19 crisis triage — Optimizing health outcomes and disability rights.
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Howard A, Borenstein J. MIT Sloan. May 12, 2020.
What if the influenza vaccine did not offer such variable protection?
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May hospitals withhold ventilators from COVID-19 patients with pre-existing disabilities? Notes on the law and ethics of disability-based medical rationing.
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Stephen R. Practical Ethics Blog. University of Oxford. May 5, 2020.
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Public engagement is key for containing COVID-19 pandemic.
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How do we decide who gets the ventilators? Polio, ethics and the age of COVID-19.
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Chevillot A. Heidi News. April 10, 2020.
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Boivin A. The BMJ. Apr 7, 2020.
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Arjini N. The Nation. April 6, 2020.
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COVID-19: What implications for sexual and reproductive health and rights globally?
Julia Hussein. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters. April 2, 2020; 28:1, DOI: 10.1080/26410397.2020.1746065.
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COVID19: Why justice and transparency in hospital triage policies are paramount.
Schuklenk U. Bioethics. Apr 1, 2020. doi: 10.1111/bioe.12744. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.
Cadre de réflexion sur les enjeux éthiques liés à la pandémie de COVID-19.
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Italy in a time of emergency and scarce resources: The need for embedding ethical reflection in social and clinical settings.
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The views of patients and the public should be included in policy responses to covid-19.
Immonen, K., 2020. The BMJ. Mar 30, 2020.
In a pandemic, does patient feedback still matter?
Munro, J. The BMJ. Mar 30, 2020.
Cancer research ethics and COVID-19.
Shuman AG, Pentz RD. Oncologist. Mar 30, 2020. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19 visitation bans for people in institutions put many at risk in other ways
Spagnuolo N, Orsini M. CBC News. March 29, 2020.
COVID-19 visitation bans for people in institutions put many at risk in other ways
Spagnuolo N, Orsini M. CBC News. March 29, 2020.
A framework for rationing ventilators and critical care beds during the COVID-19 pandemic.
White DB, Lo B. JAMA. 2020 Mar 27. Online ahead of print.
Responding to COVID-19: How to navigate a public health emergency legally and ethically.
Gostin LO, Friedman EA, Wetter SA. Gostin LO, et al. Hastings Cent Rep. 2020 Mar 26. Online ahead of print.
Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the time of COVID-19.
Emanuel EJ, Persad G, Upshur R, et al. N Engl J Med. Mar 23 2020.
The toughest triage – Allocating ventilators in a pandemic.
Truog RD, Mitchell C, Daley GQ. N Engl J Med. Mar 23 2020.
Scientific and ethical basis for social-distancing interventions against COVID-19.
Lewnard JA, Lo NC. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 23. Online ahead of print.
Strategies to inform allocation of stockpiled ventilators to healthcare facilities during a pandemic.
Koonin LM, Pillai S, Kahn EB, Moulia D, Patel A. Health Secur. 2020 Mar 20. Online ahead of print.
Facing COVID-19 in Italy – Ethics, logistics, and therapeutics on the epidemic’s front line.
Rosenbaum L. N Engl J Med. 2020 Mar 18. Online ahead of print.
Ethical framework for health care institutions & guidelines for institutional ethics services responding to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Berlinger N, Wynia M, Powell T, Hester DM, Milliken A, Fabi R, Cohn F, Guidry-Grimes LK, Watson JC, Bruce L, Chuang EJ, Oei G, Abbott J, Piper Jenks N. The Hastings Center. 2020 Mar 16. 12 p.
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