Unequal distribution of vaccines has been an indisputable fact in the past. Records of the past indicate the confiscation of vaccine by high income countries. Similarly, in this pandemic, the developed and high-income countries have faired well in the procurement and delivery of the vaccine to ...
“Ethical allocation of scarce vaccine doses: The Priority-Equality protocol” (joint with J. García-Segarra and M. Ginés-Vilar) shows that the allocation of COVID vaccines violated the ethical principles of priority and equality, and explains how we could have ...
Herbert did not clarify whether Utah will expedite the licensing and permitting processes as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had requested. The ramped up distribution timeline has raised concerns among public health experts that the vaccine’s approval may be drive...
arriving in 145 distribution centers Monday, with an additional 425 sites getting shipments Tuesday, and the remaining 66 on Wednesday. The vaccine, co-developed by German partner BioNTech, is being doled out based on each state's adult population. ...
In Europe, the European Commission is setting up a proposal to restrict COVID-19 vaccine exports amid frustration over delays in deliveries of AstraZeneca's vaccine and other supply problems. "Most developing countries will not have widespread access to the shots before 2023 at t...
White House chief of staff Ron Klain said the nation also faces distribution problems because the Trump administration, which started the program, did not have a clear plan. "The process of distributing the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals, out into the com...
Does the COVID-19 vaccine increase your risk for heart problems? Up to30% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 present heart problems, according to the CDC. About one in every 6,000 teenagers receiving a COVID-19 vaccine have presented with rare heart inflammation cases; these cases have...
Covid-19: US cases surge but vaccine distribution is slowJanice Hopkins TanneCases of covid-19 have continued to surge in the US as only five million people were vaccinated by the endof 2020, against the 20 million promised by President Donald Trump.President Elect Joe Biden has promised to...
Ahead of the authorization of the U.S.' firstsingle-dose COVID-19 vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday updated state and local partners on distribution plans for Johnson & Johnson's new vaccine — expected to be made available for ordering Sunday — according to ...
“wiggle room”. For example, if governments impose regulations on health damaging products rather than merely encourage individuals to practice healthy behaviors, the resource distribution will be of less influence. We argue that a national vaccine program should serve as a prototype of a more just...