Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40483724›Full record

ArticleDeveloping world bioethics2026

Global Interdependence, Just Vaccine Allocation, and Compensatory Justice: A New Model.

Kalen J Fredette

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Developing world bioethics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Kalen J FredetteStritch School of Medicine, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous models were offered for how scarce vaccine resources should be distributed. Proposed vaccine distribution models generally were divided between nationalist models, which give preference to nationals, and cosmopolitan models, which ignore national boundaries. More defensible international vaccine distribution program proposals incorporate ethical considerations from both cosmopolitanism and nationalist models. To date, however, proposed models have insufficiently considered how global interdependence has resulted in economic and ecological harms by high-income countries (HICs) against low-to-middle income countries (LMICs). Because these harms create health burdens for the populations of LMICs, compensatory justice should impact distribution determinations. This paper argues that adequately factoring in global interdependence, compensatory justice, as well as the disproportionate impact of pandemics on LMICs, just vaccine distribution may require prioritizing LMIC populations over those of HICs.

Indexed as

COVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesDeveloping CountriesGlobal HealthHealth Care RationingPandemicsResource AllocationSocial JusticeHumansSARS-CoV-2COVID-19 Vaccinescompensatoryinterdependencejusticeretributivevaccine allocation

Identifiers

PMID40483724
PMCPMC12980557

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.