The world is facing unprecedented challenges in coping with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The best way forward, internationally, nationally, and locally, will be through implementation of robust public health policies that are based on the latest scientific evidence. With these policies, though, come essential bioethical questions.

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Poliovirus Surveillance (Zomahoun, Burman, et al..)

Op-Ed: How COVID-19 caused the U.S. to implement universal healthcare(Amy Faith Ho)

Deadly Delay: The FDA's Role in America's COVID-Testing Debacle (Barbara J. Evans and Ellen Wright Clayton, The Yale Law Journal Forum)

Can Coronavirus Contact Tracing Survive Reopening? (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker)

How Bars Are Fueling COVID-19 Outbreaks (Will Stone, NPR)

How Public Health Experts Feel about Being Wrong(Slate)

Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience(Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard)

National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan(The Rockefeller Foundation)

National Action Plan for Expanding and Adapting the Healthcare System for the Duration of the COVID 

Pandemic (Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reentry(Atul Gawande, The New Yorker)

There Are 3 Things We Have to Do to Get People Wearing Masks(Angela Duckworth, Lyle Ungar & Ezekiel J. Emanuel, New York Times)

A National Survey Assessing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Intentions: Implications for Future Public Health Communication Efforts ( Katharine Head, Monica Kasting, Lynne Sturm, Jane Hartsock, Gregory Zimet)

The idea of using "Immunity Passports" to give some people special freedoms to move or work has become seriously considered during the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the unique situation of a widespread and highly contagious illness, limited effective treatments and or vaccine.  But this approach raises serious legal and ethical concerns.

Vaccinating Detained Migrants Against SARS-COV-2 - Preventing Another Tragedy(Palacios, Travassos, The New England Journal of Medicine)

Passport to freedom? Immunity passports for COVID-19 (Rebecca Brown, Julian Savulescu, Bridget Williams, & Dominic Wilkinson, Journal of Medical Ethics)

Why COVID-19 immunity passports may violate US law (Seema Mohapatra, The Conversation)

TheEthicsofCOVID-19Immunity-BasedLicenses("ImmunityPassports11    (Govind Persad & Ezekiel J. Emanuel, JAMA) 

Immunity Passports and Moral Hazard (Daniel Jacob Hemel & Anup Malani, University of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 743)

Ten reasons why immunity passports are a bad idea (Natalie Kofler & Franc;oise Baylis, Nature)

New bioethics questions and challenges arise during a pandemic, including whether to cut corners in design and reporting of research to try to move faster to understanding and cure, and whether to utilize approaches involving human subjects that would not be considered acceptable in other times. 

Funding of Pharmaceutical Innovation During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic(James Robinson, JAMA)

Reporting Clinical Studies Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic: Guidelines for Authors ( Roy Perlis, Sebastien Haneuse, & Gordon Rubenfield, JAMA)

Racial Disproportionality in Covid Clinical Trials(Daniel B. Chastain et al., New England Journal of Medicine)

A Vaccine Reality Check: So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.  (Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic) 

Against Pandemic Research Exceptionalism(Alex John London & Johnathan Kimmelman, Science)

Research During COVID(Megan Doerr & Jennifer K. Wagner, Journal of Law and the Biosciences)

One Man's Quest to Infect People with COVID-19 for Science (Andrew Zaleski, Medium)

Controversial ‘human challenge’ trials for COVID-19 vaccines gain support (Jon Cohen, Science)

Human Challenge Studies to Accelerate Coronavirus Vaccine Licensure (Nir Eyal, Marc Lipsitch, & Peter G. Smith, The Journal of Infectious Diseases) Q&A with the author. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00927-3

The Challenges of Challenge Experiments(Susan E. Lederer, The New England Journal of Medicine)

A strategic approach to COVID-19 vaccine R&D (Lawrence Corey, John R. Mascola, Anthony S. Fauci,Francis S. Collins, Science)

This pandemic is has amplified and transformed the vast health and economic disparities that exist in the US in healthcare and society.  The following articles address why these disparities exist and highlight proposals to counter them. 

Rethinking Wellness in Health Care Amid Rising COVID-19- Associated Emotional Distress (Bryant Adibe, JAMA)

Socioeconomic Disparities in Patient Use of Telehealth During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Surge (Ilaaf Darrat, Samantha Tam, MD, & Marwan Boulis, JAMA)

Empty Beds and Mounting Deaths: COVID-19 and U.S. Healthcare’s Systemic Failures(Jenny Hua, M.D., Ph.D., Somatosphere)

New York Doctors- Letter to NYS DOH on Public Health Impact of Eviction

No More Status Quo: A community-led action plan for addressing structural inequity during COVID-19 recovery(Hanna Love, Tunua Thrash-Ntuk, and Jennifer S. Vey, The Brookings Institute)

Association Between State-Level Income Inequality and COVID-19 Cases and Mortality in the USA(Oronce, C.I.A., Scannell, C.A., Kawachi, I. et al., Journal of  Genteral Internal  Medicine)

Why Do We Pay So Many People So Little Money?(Thomas D. Edsalls D. Edsall, The New York Times)

America Can Afford a World-Class Healthcare System: Why don't we have one? (Anne Case and Angus Deaton, NY Times)

The Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others?(Hannah Beech, Alissa J. Rubin, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Ruth Maclean, NY Times)

We can’t recover from a coronoavirus recession without helping young workers (Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman, Brookings Institute) 

The large and unequal impact of COVID on workers (Abigail Adams-Prassl, Teodora Boneva, Marta Golin, and Christopher Rauh, Vox)

The effect of COVID-19 and disease suppression policies on labor markets(Jonathan Rothwell and Hannah Van Drie, Brookings Institute) 

Covid-19, (In)visible Mothers, and the State (Cultural Anthropology) (Lindsay Donaldson, Society for Cultural Anthropology)

A National Survey Assessing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Intentions: Implications for Future Public Health Communication Efforts ( Katharine Head, Monica Kasting, Lynne Sturm, Jane Hartsock, Gregory Zimet)

The tragic history of racial mistreatment and bias in the US has always affected healthcare and research involving people of color. These disparities are now contributing to the disproportionate rates of death faced by Black Americans.

Black Lives and Health Justice (Elizabeth A. Nelson, Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics)

Indiana's Black Death Rates from COVID-19: Institutional Sources of Disparity (Breanca Merritt, Center for Research on Inclusion & Social Policy)

Covid's Color Line - Infectious Disease, Inequality, and Racial Justice(Michele K. Evans, M.D., The New England Journal of Medicine)

Race Gaps in COVID-19 Deaths are Even Bigger Than They Appear(Tiffany Ford, Sarah Reber, Richard V. Reeves, Brookings)

Canaries in the Coal Mine: COVID-19 Misinformation and Black Communities(Brandi Collins-Dexter, Technology and Social Change Project and Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy)

Podcast with author Brandi Collins-Dexter(Lawfare podcast, July 9, 2020)

Building Racial Equity in Tech Ecosystems to Spur Local Recovery(Dell Gines and Rodney Sampson, Actionable Ideas for Economic Recovery in American Cities)

Zip Code Virus Data Show Disparities: More cases shown in poorer areas of Indiana.  (Nikki Kelly, The Journal Gazette) 

Medical Bias (John Eligon and Audra D. S. Burch, NY Times)