COVID-19 Resources

Ethics Center faculty members are hard at work, weighing in on ethics issues and providing comments on moral and ethical issues. They are currently speaking to leaders around the country on the COVID-19 pandemic and previously have offered guidance on influenza pandemic. Here is a list of those contributions.

January 

December

• December 20, 2020  The latest CDC Advisory Committee recommendations for the use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine now being distributed in the U.S.  The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Interim Recommendation for Use of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, December 2020

• December 18, 2020  The Pfizer vaccine has been authorized for emergency use. See the most recent CDC publication here:

  The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Interim Recommendation for Use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, December 2020

• December 11, 2020  After much investigation of possible pathways for distributing the initial, limited doses of COVID-19 vaccines, the ACIP has recommended that initial vaccine doses should be offered to: 1) health care personnel and 2) long-term care facility residents. Link to the  CDC report here: 

  The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Interim Recommendation for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, 2020

November

• November 27, 2020   The Center's Associate Director, Kathy Kinlaw, is a member of the ACIP COVID-19 workgroup and co-author of the CDC's recent publication on ethical principles for allocating COVID-19 vaccine. 

  The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Ethical Principles for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, 2020.

July

• Did You Wash Your Hands? WABE Podcast, featuring Paul Root Wolpe. Episode: Navigating The Pandemic's Ethical Dilemmas, July 23 
• Healthcare Ethics Consortium “Post”-COVID-19 & Ethics webinar series: Ethics as a Resource During a Continually Evolving Public Health Emergency July 7, featuring Kathy Kinlaw and other speakers

June

• Prof Joe Covid 19 Aged Care Podcast: Ep 23: Discussion with John Banja

May

• USA Today: "To Find a Coronavirus Vaccine, Can We Ethically Infect People with a Disease with No Cure?," featuring Paul Root Wolpe

• Kathy Kinlaw invited by CDC to serve on an Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) COVID-19 Vaccines Work Group

• Oregon Humanities Center: “Ethical Challenges of the COVID Pandemic” Talk by Paul Root Wolpe

• Leadership Atlanta, Conference: How will 5Gl Change the Way We Live and Work Post Pandemic? Presentation: “Just because we can, the real question is….SHOULD WE?” featuring Paul Root Wolpe

April

• The Hill: "We Need a Better Understanding of the Human Costs of Our Containment Efforts for COVID-19," featuring Jim Lavery

• The Hill: What do we have to lose with hydroxychloroquine? Evidence that might save lives. (Jim Lavery)

• NETEC Webinar Series: "Ethical Issues in Pandemic Response—Triage and Beyond," featuring Kathy Kinlaw 

• "When Resources Are Limited, What Would an Ethicist Do?"
  Featuring: Paul Root Wolpe, Ethics Center director and president of the Association of Bioethics Program; Kathy Kinlaw,  Ethics Center associate director and chief clinical ethicist at Emory. Moderated by John Banja, medical ethicist, Ethics Center, and professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory School of Medicine
• Georgia Public Broadcasting: On Second Thought, "Under Strain of Limited Resources: The Ethics and Emotional Impact of Triage Decisions," featuring Kathy Kinlaw

• AJC: "Georgia Doctors Plan for Wrenching Choices amid Slim Ventilator Supply," featuring Kathy Kinlaw

• WebMD: "How Do You Choose Who Gets a Ventilator?," featuring Paul Root Wolpe

• Neurology Today: "COVID-19: Prepare for Care-Rationing—Know Your Hospital Policies," featuring Paul Root Wolpe

• Israeli Consulate: “Ethical Challenges in the COVID-19 Pandemic” Seminar featuring Paul Root Wolpe

March

• Cardiothoracic Surgery Network: "Cardiothoracic Surgeons in Pandemics: Ethical Considerations," coauthored by Kathy Kinlaw

• CDC: "Ethical Considerations for Decision Making regarding Allocation of Mechanical Ventilators during a Severe Influenza Pandemic or Other Public Health Emergency." Kathy Kinlaw was a member of the CDC's Ventilator Document Work Group. (2011)

• CDC: "Ethical Guidelines in Pandemic Influenza," coauthored by Kathy Kinlaw (2007)

• Grand Rounds: “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me . . . Disease Control," a presentation by Jim Lavery

• World Economic Forum: "3 Ways to Protect Your Mental Health during—and after—COVID-19," featuring Karen Rommelfanger

• CNN Espanol: "La pandemia coronavirus plantea problemas éticos para los médicos" ("The Coronavirus Pandemic Poses Ethical Problems for Doctors"), featuring Paul Root Wolpe

• Washington Post: "New York’s Bioethics Experts Prepare for a Wave of Difficult Decisions," featuring Paul Root Wolpe

• Healthcare Ethics Consortium: HEC COVID-19 Ethics Guidance Information. This ethics guidance from Emory Healthcare appears in a section of the HEC site that offers "institution-specific models that may be helpful for review and adoption."