Bioethics
Perspective | Science, not speculation, is essential to determine how SARS-CoV-2 reached humans.
6 Jul, 2021 | 10:12h | UTCScience, not speculation, is essential to determine how SARS-CoV-2 reached humans – The Lancet
When is ‘self-plagiarism’ OK? New guidelines offer researchers rules for recycling text.
6 Jul, 2021 | 10:02h | UTCWhen is ‘self-plagiarism’ OK? New guidelines offer researchers rules for recycling text – Science (a few articles per month are free)
WHO challenges Pfizer and Moderna to openly share their know-how to accelerate COVID vaccine production.
5 Jul, 2021 | 02:36h | UTC
Joint COVAX Statement on the Equal Recognition of Vaccines – COVAX urges all government authorities to recognize as fully vaccinated all people who have received COVID-19 vaccines that have been deemed safe and effective by WHO.
5 Jul, 2021 | 02:39h | UTCJoint COVAX Statement on the Equal Recognition of Vaccines – World Health Organization
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
#COVAX urges all government authorities to recognize as fully vaccinated all who have received #COVID19 vaccines approved by WHO or one of 11 approved Stringent Regulatory Authorities, when making decisions on who is able to travel or attend events.
👉https://t.co/udYVrYTdMg pic.twitter.com/DihCPUmS8F
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) July 1, 2021
Viewpoint | Sharing technology and vaccine doses to address global vaccine inequity and end the COVID-19 pandemic.
2 Jul, 2021 | 11:22h | UTC
Analysis | Future of covid-19 vaccine pricing: lessons from influenza – “Routine use of covid-19 vaccines could strain health budgets if pricing follows the pattern seen with influenza vaccines”.
24 Jun, 2021 | 09:50h | UTCFuture of covid-19 vaccine pricing: lessons from influenza – The BMJ
Commentary on Twitter
https://twitter.com/hildabast/status/1407469629459468289
Opinion | I Run the W.H.O., and I Know That Rich Countries Must Make a Choice.
14 Jun, 2021 | 08:44h | UTCI Run the W.H.O., and I Know That Rich Countries Must Make a Choice – The New York Times
Editorial: Embrace the WHO’s new naming system for coronavirus variants.
10 Jun, 2021 | 09:48h | UTCEmbrace the WHO’s new naming system for coronavirus variants – Nature
Opinion | Epidemiology, not geopolitics, should guide COVID-19 vaccine donations.
10 Jun, 2021 | 09:51h | UTCEpidemiology, not geopolitics, should guide COVID-19 vaccine donations – The Lancet
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
Maximizing potential benefit of vaccine donations depends on doses going where they can do the"most good" but there's no consensus on where that would be
Murray @IHME_UW @RCReinerJr & I propose an approach that prioritizes epidemiology over geopolitics 1/https://t.co/OxOXLr5L55
— Tom Bollyky (@TomBollyky) June 9, 2021
Radiology malpractice cases most often involve cancer-related diagnostic errors.
10 Jun, 2021 | 09:27h | UTCRadiology malpractice cases most often involve cancer-related diagnostic errors – Health Imaging
Original study: Oncologic Errors in Diagnostic Radiology: A 10-Year Analysis Based on Medical Malpractice Claims – Journal of the American College of Radiology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Are SARS-CoV-2 Human Challenge Trials Ethical? – “A clinical trial is underway in the UK in which young, healthy participants are exposed deliberately to SARS-CoV-2 to assess the viral inoculum needed to produce an infection and to test vaccine efficacy”.
8 Jun, 2021 | 09:29h | UTCAre SARS-CoV-2 Human Challenge Trials Ethical? – JAMA Internal Medicine
Related: World’s first coronavirus “Human Challenge” study receives ethics approval in the UK (several texts on the subject)
Commentary on Twitter
I am not convinced of #SARSCoV2 #ChallengeTrials. You should not pay volunteers. If things go wrong, there is no effective treatment. What will be learnt from mild disease, when you are interested in severe disease? #COVID19 #Covid #Corona #coronavirushttps://t.co/JjXDJDfOl2
— Martin Michaelis (@MartMichaelis) June 8, 2021
Challenges and solutions for physician mothers: a critical review of the literature.
6 Jun, 2021 | 23:46h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Challenges and Solutions for Physician Mothers: A Critical Review of the Literature in @MayoProceedings
By @sherry_chesak @anjalibhagramd et al.#WomenInMedicine @AMWADoctors https://t.co/RXvXt739PN pic.twitter.com/7aNuA9JVJQ— Mayo Clinic GRIT (@MayoGRIT) April 9, 2021
Investigation | Covid 19: How harm reduction advocates and the tobacco industry capitalized on the pandemic to promote nicotine.
6 Jun, 2021 | 23:51h | UTCCommentaries: Researchers report how the tobacco and e-cigarette industry capitalized on COVID-19 to promote smoking – News Medical AND Investigation discredits studies suggesting lower COVID-19 risk for smokers
WHO: Vaccinating kids ‘not a high priority’ amid shortage
4 Jun, 2021 | 10:31h | UTCWHO: Vaccinating kids ‘not a high priority’ amid shortage – Associated Press
Related: WHO: Wealthy nations urged to delay youth Covid vaccines, donate to solidarity scheme AND Editorial: Vaccinating children against SARS-CoV-2 – “Hard to justify right now for most children in most countries”. AND Opinion | American Kids Can Wait – “The U.S. should delay shots for children until global vaccine-manufacturing capacity significantly expands and the crisis in India subsides”. AND Vaccinating children before poor morally wrong, Oxford scientist says – BBC
ACP offers guidance on physician suicide prevention and the role of a healing community from an ethics perspective.
3 Jun, 2021 | 10:45h | UTC
JAMA editor-in-chief stepping down after backlash from podcast that questioned racism in medicine.
2 Jun, 2021 | 08:28h | UTCSee also: JAMA editor in chief steps down over tweet that questioned racism in medicine – MarketWatch AND The Editor Of A Top Medical Journal Is Leaving After The Publication Said “No Physician Is Racist” – Buzzfeed News
JAMA Editorial: To Howard Bauchner, MD, Visionary Editor in Chief of JAMA—A Sincere Thank You and a Fond Farewell
WHO renames COVID-19 variants with the Greek alphabet (i.e., Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc), making them simple, easy to say and remember. The naming system aims to prevent calling COVID-19 variants by the places where they are detected, which is stigmatizing & discriminatory.
1 Jun, 2021 | 08:26h | UTCTracking SARS-CoV-2 variants – World Health Organization
Commentaries: The name game for coronavirus variants just got a little easier – STAT AND Covid: WHO renames UK and other variants with Greek letters – BBC
Opinion | The Covid-19 lab leak theory is a tale of weaponized uncertainty.
31 May, 2021 | 08:19h | UTCThe Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Is a Tale of Weaponized Uncertainty – Wired
See also: Divisive COVID ‘lab leak’ debate prompts dire warnings from researchers – Nature
Academic bullying is too often ignored. Here are some targets’ stories.
31 May, 2021 | 07:59h | UTCAcademic bullying is too often ignored. Here are some targets’ stories – Science (a few articles per month are free)
WHO COVAX Joint Statement: Call to action to equip COVAX to deliver 2 billion doses in 2021.
28 May, 2021 | 08:28h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
.@DrTedros, @GaviSeth, @DrRHatchett, Henrietta Fore @unicefchief issued a call to action to equip #COVAX to deliver 2 billion #COVID19 vaccine doses in 2021
👉 https://t.co/wtBaqHAoti #VaccinEquity— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) May 27, 2021
Advance Care Planning for people with dementia: recognizing moral dilemmas faced by physicians.
28 May, 2021 | 08:14h | UTC
Opinion | Rich countries cornered COVID-19 vaccine doses. Four strategies to right a ‘scandalous inequity’.
27 May, 2021 | 08:29h | UTCRich countries cornered COVID-19 vaccine doses. Four strategies to right a ‘scandalous inequity’ – Science (a few articles per month are free)
Commentary on Twitter
Tedros @WHO calls it a "scandalous inequity" that COVID-19 vaccine doses largely have gone to wealthy countries. @kakape and I took a close look at four strategies to improve access and equity–and the likely timelines.
https://t.co/10Os0yCnFE pic.twitter.com/RMeL6t8aCV— Jon Cohen (@sciencecohen) May 26, 2021
Editorial | A patent waiver on COVID vaccines is right and fair.
26 May, 2021 | 08:35h | UTCA patent waiver on COVID vaccines is right and fair – Nature
Related: Analysis: Covid-19: How will a waiver on vaccine patents affect global supply?
Opinion | Protecting Olympic Participants from Covid-19 — The Urgent Need for a Risk-Management Approach.
26 May, 2021 | 08:33h | UTC
COVID vaccines: the danger of journals being seen as substitute regulators – “the peer-review process is not adequate to evaluate a new vaccine in the way that a regulator can”.
20 May, 2021 | 08:51h | UTCCOVID vaccines: the danger of journals being seen as substitute regulators – The Conversation
Related: Covid-19: Sputnik vaccine rockets, thanks to Lancet boost