COVID-19

UK minister roasted for thousands of UNintended Covid deaths in nursing homes. Why is he supporting INTENDED deaths via ‘assisted dying’?

Ann Farmer | 30 May 2021 | Comments

tags: covid-19, united kingdom

Matt Hancock has come under fire for his performance during the pandemic

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Building back better in bioethics

Michael Cook | 30 May 2021 | Comments

tags: covid-19, critical race theory

Battered by the pandemic, bioethicists reflect on the future

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US needs a vaccine mandate, says Ezekiel Emanuel

| 17 April 2021 | Comments

tags: covid-19, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports

Otherwise it might not be able to achieve herd immunity

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American bioethicists call for a Covid-19 commission

Michael Cook | 14 March 2021 | Comments

tags: covid-19

More than half a million people have died in the United States

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UK to begin first challenge trials for Covid-19

Michael Cook | 21 February 2021 | Comments

tags: covid-19, human challenge studies

Critics say that recent mutations make them useless

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Should politicians be held to account for mishandling the pandemic?

Michael Cook | 06 February 2021 | Comments

tags: covid-19

At the very least, Covid-19 might be classified as ‘social murder’ argues BMJ editor

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If fake medical news is dangerous, its authors should be jailed, says Polish lawyer

Michael Cook | 16 January 2021 | Comments

tags: covid-19, fake news

If Holocaust denial is a crime, why not vaccine denial?

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Ethicists propose standards for Covid-19 triage

Michael Cook | 13 December 2020 | Comments

tags: covid-19, triage

Decisions about triage give too little consideration to moral problems

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Triage according to standard tests of frailty, says Oxford bioethicist

Michael Cook | 13 December 2020 | Comments

tags: covid-19, triage

‘Frailty is ethical to use in ICU triage and is not discriminatory’

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Biden announces expert team for planning Covid-19 fight

Michael Cook | 18 November 2020 | Comments

tags: covid-19, joe biden

He wants all Americans to wear masks

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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.