COVID-19

International surrogacy goes pear-shaped

Michael Cook | 02 August 2020 | Comments

tags: covid-19, surrogacy

A thousand babies -- at least -- are stranded in Russia with their surrogate mothers

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Concerns raised about Covid-19 and moral distress

Xavier Symons | 28 June 2020 | Comments

tags: covid-19, icu, moral distress, moral injury, pandemics

Medical assocations have warned of the moral stress that COVID-19 can place on clinicians.

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Leading journals forced to retract hydroxychloroquine studies

Xavier Symons | 07 June 2020 | Comments

tags: academic misconduct, academic publishing, covid-19, retractions

The retractions have caused shockwaves in the global scientific community.

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Ethicists double down on utilitarian framework for pandemics

Xavier Symons | 31 May 2020 | Comments

tags: covid-19, isolation, pandemics, rationing, utilitarianism

Three Oxford ethicists have defended utilitarian pandemic ethics.

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Should COVID-19 vaccination be compulsory?

Xavier Symons | 16 May 2020 | Comments

tags: autonomy, compulsory vaccination, covid-19, vaccination

A group Oxford ethicists say "yes".

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Covid-19 pandemic could lead to unprecedented increase in deaths of despair

Xavier Symons | 10 May 2020 | Comments

tags: coronavirus, covid-19, pandemics, suicide

A new study warns of an epidemic of deaths of despair.