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Our outputs include rapid research reviews, commentaries and policy guidance, as well as commissioned research, consultation responses and stakeholder engagement. A selection of recent UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator outputs follow.

The Accelerator offers a diversity of intellectual views and analysis. All branded outputs have been peer reviewed before publication.

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‘A can of worms’: Experts weigh in on the vaccine passport debate

Workstreams: Foresight

Sarah Chan is one of several experts discussing their concerns about vaccine passports: “One of the main problems…is that they focus on the individual’s vaccination status as a binary indicator of risk, to self and others: Vaccinated equals ‘safe’, unvaccinated...

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Lateral flow tests and schools: Why the government’s approach is ethically flawed

Workstreams: Prioritisation

A Journal of Medical Ethics blog by Dominic Wilkinson, Julian Savulescu and Jonathan Pugh, was published on 12 March: ‘Lateral flow tests and schools: Why the government’s approach is ethically flawed’.

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COVID vaccines: is it wrong to jump the queue?

Workstreams: Prioritisation

Dominic Wilkinson and Jonathan Pugh published a blog on The Conversation website ‘COVID vaccines: is it wrong to jump the queue?’ on 11 March. This article discusses the ethical and moral ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’ of vaccine queue jumping.

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The questions we should be asking about vaccine passports

Workstreams: Data use

Cian O’Donovan’s blog ‘The questions we should be asking about vaccine passports’ was published by Research Fortnight and Research Europe on 11 March. This article discusses the need for inter- and transdisciplinary evaluation of vaccine passport infrastructures. It argues that...

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Is it irrational not to have a plan? Should there have been national guidance on rationing in the NHS?

Workstreams: Prioritisation

Dominic Wilkinson and Jonathan Pugh published a blog in The Journal of Medical Ethics on 2 March entitled ‘Is it irrational not to have a plan? Should there have been national guidance on rationing in the NHS?’ If it becomes...

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Could COVID ‘vaccine certificates’ lead to discrimination?

Dominic Wilkinson discussed vaccine passports with Al Jazeera on 25 February.

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Self-experimentation with vaccines

Workstreams: Prioritisation

Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu authored the article ‘Self-experimentation with vaccines’ for the Journal of Medical Ethics blog. Regulators have taken an increasing interest in self-experimentation in the context of bio-hacking given the potential risks it may pose...

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Vaccine passport perspectives

Sarah Chan and Dominic Wilkinson shared their perspectives on vaccine passports on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on 20 February.

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Experts unconvinced by Lord Sumption’s lockdown ethics

John Coggon was quoted in The Guardian article ‘Experts unconvinced by Lord Sumption’s lockdown ethics – Archie Bland’ on 19 January. John Coggon questions Lord Sumptions’s view that “quality-adjusted life-years” (QALYs), a measure often used in medical ethics to help...

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