Allocating Vaccines in a Pandemic: The Ethical Dimension

Affiliations

¹ Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI. Electronic address: joseph_wu@brown.edu.
² Hatton Lecturer, Philosophy of Public Health, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
³ Professor of Medical Science, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI.

Editorial

Joseph H Wu et al. Am J Med. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;133(11):1241-1242.

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.06.007. Epub 2020 Jul 10.

¹ Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI. Electronic address: joseph_wu@brown.edu.
² Hatton Lecturer, Philosophy of Public Health, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
³ Professor of Medical Science, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI.

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