Ethical trade-offs in vaccine development and distribution-Response to Gurwitz

Annette Rid¹, Seema K Shah², Franklin G Miller³, Marion Danis⁴, Marie Nicolini⁵, Jorge Ochoa⁶, Holly A Taylor⁷, David S Wendler⁸, Christine Grady⁹

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¹ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: annette.rid@nih.gov.
² Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University Department of Pediatrics, 225 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, United States. Electronic address: Seshah@lurie.childrens.org.
³ Weill Cornell Medical College, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Ave, New York, NY 10065, United States. Electronic address: fgm2002@med.cornell.edu.
⁴ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: mdanis@nih.gov.
⁵ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: marie.nicolini@nih.gov.
⁶ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: jorge.ochoa@nih.gov.
⁷ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: holly.taylor2@nih.gov.
⁸ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: dwendler@cc.nih.gov.
⁹ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: cgrady@nih.gov.

PMID: 33546811
PMCID: PMC9756567
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.01.020

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Ethical trade-offs in vaccine development and distribution-Response to Gurwitz

Annette Rid et al. Vaccine. 2021.

. 2021 Feb 12;39(7):1028-1029.

doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.01.020.

Authors

Annette Rid¹, Seema K Shah², Franklin G Miller³, Marion Danis⁴, Marie Nicolini⁵, Jorge Ochoa⁶, Holly A Taylor⁷, David S Wendler⁸, Christine Grady⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: annette.rid@nih.gov.
² Lurie Children's Hospital, Northwestern University Department of Pediatrics, 225 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, United States. Electronic address: Seshah@lurie.childrens.org.
³ Weill Cornell Medical College, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Ave, New York, NY 10065, United States. Electronic address: fgm2002@med.cornell.edu.
⁴ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: mdanis@nih.gov.
⁵ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: marie.nicolini@nih.gov.
⁶ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: jorge.ochoa@nih.gov.
⁷ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: holly.taylor2@nih.gov.
⁸ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: dwendler@cc.nih.gov.
⁹ Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Building 10/1C118, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: cgrady@nih.gov.

PMID: 33546811
PMCID: PMC9756567
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.01.020

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Comment on

Ethical tradeoffs in SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development: Assuring fair availability for low-income countries.
Gurwitz D. Gurwitz D. Vaccine. 2021 Feb 12;39(7):1027. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.01.015. Vaccine. 2021. PMID: 33546810 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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