THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTER - April 2020 Father Tad Pacholczyk. Director of Education. Creating a new vaccine and bringing it to market typically requires more than a decade of research and clinical testing. Many companies and research groups are working overtime to shorten this timeline dramatically...
Vaccine Implications for Public Trust Brit Trogen, MD, MS1; David Oshinsky, PhD1; Arthur Caplan, PhD1 JAMA. 2020;323(24):2460-2461. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.8917 As the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) pandemic persists across the US and the world, the spotlight on vaccine science has never been more intense. Researchers across the globe are working rapidly to...
By Vardit Ravitsky Published on: May 20, 2020 Covid-19 is making bioethics more relevant than ever. The ethical dilemmas raised by the pandemic are urgent and heart-wrenching. Who should get a ventilator if we do not have enough? How can we protect the most vulnerable (for example,...