The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming bioethical questions facing the healthcare system, society, and the world at large. This page presents recent writing and presentations by the faculty and staff of the IU Center for Bioethics, and additional materials selected by them as essential to understanding ethics and COVID-19. 

Click the links below to see more writing and presentations created by Center faculty and staff, or older recommended writing and presentations.  These are grouped into categories:  Public health measures, Vaccine Ethics, Research during a pandemic, Racial and Social Disparities.

Writing and Presentations by the IU Center for Bioethics Faculty and Staff

Dr. Aaron Carroll

• You Can't Rely on the CDC to Make Your Pandemic Decisions, New York Times
• When Can We Declare the Pandemic Over?, New York Times

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Selected Writing and Presentation

Vaccine Ethics

•  David Leonhardt, a long-time Times reporter, explores the complicated choices facing families whose young children (under 12 years old) will not be able to be vaccinated this summer.  As we get vaccinated and start returning to more normal lives, how do we think about getting these kids back to more normal lives too, balanced against the risk of their getting COVID? What Do You Do When Kids Are Still Unvaccinated?

• Escaping Catch - 22 - Overcoming COVID Vaccine Hesitancy, Lisa Rosenbaum, MD

Research during a Pandemic

• The "Legal Epidemiology" of Pandemic Control, Scott Burris, JD, Evan D. Anderson, JD, PhD, and Alexander C. Wagenaar, MSW, PhD
• No Cure without Care - Soothing Science Skepticism, Lisa Rosenbaum, MD

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