Bioethics COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine 
Bill of Health
JANUARY 31, 2022
Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. Older and medically vulnerable people who continue to face high risk of COVID-19 illness after vaccination should not be asked to wait in line behind adults who refused vaccines.
Bill of Health
JANUARY 18, 2024
While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”
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Health Populi
APRIL 27, 2021
Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus. The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. In the U.S., population). population).
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 24, 2023
By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2021
As an important example, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that, for instance, despite widespread availability of free vaccines, there are continued inequities in vaccine coverage, which perpetuates COVID-19–related health inequities. than on white people.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
J was brought to the Emergency Department with a cough, but after a test, we learned he was COVID positive. Clinically, it was difficult to discern if it was COVID-19 or withdrawal triggering his body aches and diarrhea. Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress.
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
can stop wearing masks, has attempted to change the reality of our COVID risk landscape by assigning new colors to risk levels and massively shifting the parameters of these criteria. is still recording nearly 2,000 COVID-19 deaths per day. For context, over the entire year of 2020, about 385,000 COVID-19 deaths were recorded.
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