- Bioethics Forum Essay
Treating Gun Violence as a Public Health Threat: Not Exactly What We Meant
Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
California U-Turn on Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren
Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Masks, Values, and a Lesson for Democracy?
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAs mask mandates are rolled back and friends and neighbors debate the risks and benefits of masks and the merits or permissibility of mandating their use, we can catch a glimpse of the considerable extent to which values depend heavily on something other than pure reason. It’s a bit disappointing, perhaps. But it might be a useful lesson for democracy.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Resilience and the Twin Medical Catastrophes of War and Pandemic
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayAs I sit here in my office at the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, my colleagues are experiencing great moral anguish because of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Simultaneously, we are also confronting the Omicron wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The war complicates and burdens health care here and in other border nations exponentially, and especially so in combination with the pandemic.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
I Was Never “Just” a Visitor
Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Global Health Justice: Now Is the Time
Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Overcoming Covid Vaccine Hesitancy Among Minnesota’s Somali Muslims
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayWhen Covid-19 vaccines first became available last year, Somali Muslims in Minnesota--the largest Somali Muslim population in North America-- were fearful and, consequently, their vaccination rate was low and their Covid-19 rate was high. But health professionals and community representatives worked together to understand and overcome their vaccine hesitancy.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Another Pragmatic Public Health Decision
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayThere has been much criticism of the decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to let Covid-infected people who are feeling better to stop quarantining after five days and simply wear a mask. But this sort of pragmatic decision has a long history in public health.Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
With Pediatric Hospitalizations Rising, Reconsider Off-Label Covid Vaccination for Young Children
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssayPfizer recently announced that its trials in children 2 to 5 years old produced a weaker than expected antibody response and that it would hold off requesting authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. This news creates opportunities – and additional challenges – for off-label use of Covid-19 vaccines in children,Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Should Clinicians Ask Hospitalized Covid Patients Why They Aren’t Vaccinated?
Read the Post