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ArticleCambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees2021

SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccine Development and Production: An Ethical Way Forward.

Kenneth V Iserson

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Article in Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Moral Distress among Frontline Physicians and Nurses in the Early Phase of COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  4. Photocatalytic TiOMicro and nano engineering · 2022
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  5. Mind the "Vaccine Fatigue".Frontiers in immunology · 2022
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  7. Vaccine design and delivery approaches for COVID-19.International immunopharmacology · 2021
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  9. COVID-19 vaccines and nanomedicine.International journal of dermatology · 2021
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  12. A Tale of Two Crises: Addressing Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy as Promoting Racial Justice.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2021
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  15. The find of COVID-19 vaccine: Challenges and opportunities.Journal of infection and public health · 2021
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  18. A review of vaccine effects on women in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.Taiwanese journal of obstetrics & gynecology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Kenneth V Iserson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The world awaits a SARS-CoV-2 virus (i.e., COVID-19 disease) vaccine to keep the populace healthy, fully reopen their economies, and return their social and healthcare systems to "normal." Vaccine safety and efficacy requires meticulous testing and oversight; this paper describes how despite grandiose public statements, the current vaccine development, testing, and production methods may prove to be ethically dubious, medically dangerous, and socially volatile. The basic moral concern is the potential danger to the health of human test subjects and, eventually, many vaccine recipients. This is further complicated by economic and political pressures to reduce government oversight on rushed vaccine testing and production, nationalistic distribution goals, and failure to plan for the widespread immunization needed to produce global herd immunity. As this paper asserts, the public must be better informed to assess promises about the novel vaccines being produced and to tolerate delays and uncertainty.

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Biomedical ResearchClinical Trials as TopicCOVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesDrug DevelopmentHumansImmunization ProgramsSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 VaccinesCOVID-19immunizationSARS-CoV-2 virusvaccinesvaccine testing

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PMID32498742
PMCPMC7327159

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