ArticleThe Hastings Center report2021
Weighted Lotteries and the Allocation of Scarce Medications for Covid-19.
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- Using a lottery to resolve indeterminacy when allocating resources for drugs for rare diseases.Journal of medical ethics · 2026Article
- Is the HPV vaccine lottery system equitable under constrained vaccine supply? A cross-sectional study in China.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- On value compatibility: reflections on the ethical framework for pandemic healthcare distribution.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2025Article
- Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Supply of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody.JAMA health forum · 2023Article
- Increasing Equity in the Transnational Allocation of Vaccines Against Emerging Pathogens: A Multi-Modal Approach.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2023Article
- Protecting our Elders and Developing Equitable Policies During Public Health Emergencies: Ethical Recommendations.Current geriatrics reports · 2021Review
- Weighted Lotteries and the Allocation of Scarce Medications for Covid-19.The Hastings Center report · 2021Article
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Abstract
The allocation of vaccines and therapeutics for Covid-19 obviously raises ethical questions, and physicians and ethicists have begun to address them. Writers have identified various criteria that should guide allocation decisions, but the criteria often conflict and need to be balanced against one another. This article proposes a model for thinking about how different considerations that are relevant to the distribution of vaccines and scarce treatments for Covid-19 could be integrated into an allocation procedure. The model employs the construct of a weighted lottery, which is a construct that has been employed in other contexts that involve the distribution of scarce resources. The article highlights the advantages of applying a weighted lottery to the Covid-19 context and offers an illustration for how it might work in practice. The primary aim of the article is to articulate the structural features of a weighted lottery for this context and to bring out its advantages over other methods for allocating Covid-19 medications.
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