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Is it Irrational Not to Have a Plan? Should There Have Been National Guidance on Rationing in the NHS?
By Dominic Wilkinson and Jonathan Pugh. This is a crosspost from the Journal of Medical Ethics Blog. This is an output of the UKRI Pandemic Ethics Accelerator project. Last April, in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of academics, lawyers, doctors and ethicists wrote publicly about the need for national ethical guidance
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Cross-Post: Self-experimentation with vaccines
By Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu. This is a crosspost from the Journal of Medical Ethics Blog. This is an output of the UKRI Pandemic Ethics Accelerator project. A group of citizen scientists has launched a non-profit, non-commercial organisation named ‘RaDVaC’, which aims to rapidly develop, produce, and self-administer an intranasally delivered
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An Ethical Review of Hotel Quarantine Policies For International Arrivals
Written by: Jonathan Pugh Dominic Wilkinson Julian Savulescu This is an output of the UKRI Pandemic Ethics Accelerator project – it develops an earlier assessment of the English hotel quarantine policy, published by The Conversation) The UK has announced that from 15th Feb, British and Irish nationals and others with residency rights travelling to
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Announcement: Finalists of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and Final Presentation
Please join us in congratulating all of the finalists in the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. The 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation HT21 Week 8, Wednesday 10th March, 5pm – 6:30 pm. The Presentation will be held via zoom webinar, the registration details of which are below.
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Priority Vaccination for Prison and Homeless Populations
Written by Ben Davies Last week brought the news that an additional 1.7m people in the UK had been asked to take additional ‘shielding’ measures against COVID-19, following new modelling which considered previously ignored factors such as ethnicity, weight and deprivation. Since many of this group have not yet been vaccinated, they were bumped up
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Video Series: How To Prevent Future Pandemics
First interview in the new Thinking Out Loud series on ‘Animals and Pandemics’: Katrien Devolder in conversation with Jeff Sebo, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU, on how our treatment of animals increases the risk of future pandemics arising, and on what we should do to reduce that risk!
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Crosspost: Is It Ethical To Quarantine People In Hotel Rooms?
Written by Dominic Wilkinson and Jonathan Pugh, The UK government announced that from February 15, British and Irish residents travelling to England from “red list” countries will have to quarantine in a government-sanctioned hotel for ten days, at a personal cost of £1,750. Accommodation must be booked in advance, and people will need to have
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Cross Post: Not Recommending AstraZeneca Vaccine For The Elderly Risks The Lives Of The Most Vulnerable
Jonathan Pugh, University of Oxford and Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford Regulators in Europe are at odds over whether the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine should be given to the elderly. In the UK, the vaccine has been approved for use in adults aged 18 and up, but France, Germany, Sweden and Austria say the vaccine should be
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Ethics of the GameStop Short Squeeze
By Doug McConnell Recently a large, loosely coordinated group of individual ‘retail investors’ have been buying up stocks that certain hedge funds had bet against (i.e. ‘shorted’). In doing so, the retail investors have driven up the price of those stocks. This has caused hedge funds that shorted the stock to lose billions of dollars
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Guest Post: What Is The Case For Virtual Schooling?
Written by Thomas Moller-Nielsen News that children in England were to switch to online schooling as part of the country’s third national lockdown in response to the Covid-19 global pandemic was met with widespread support in the British press. Doctors, public health specialists, and even teaching unions similarly applauded the decision. (Nurseries, which have remained open