Patricia Mayer, MD, MS, HEC-C
Presented on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 – 4:00 PM MST
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COVID-19 has enlightened the biomedical and medical community to challenges and ethical decisions that need to be deliberated or ameliorated in a community. One of the recent deliberations looks at the distribution schema to the population should a vaccine be shown to be effective and become available. If/when a vaccine becomes available, it is unlikely that the production volume will meet the demand right away. Who should get the vaccine first? What would be a fair distribution? What would be a just distribution? What complications (such as refrigeration, or providers, or observation time) do the logistics of a vaccine present? Dr. Patricia Mayer will lead us in a discussion so that we might understand the current efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, the ethical allocation in distribution, and the ethical challenges to developing, releasing, marketing and providing vaccine.
Dr. Mayer currently serves as Director of Clinical Ethics, Banner Gateway/MD Anderson Campus, AZ, and holds adjunct faculty positions at Case Western Reserve University Bioethics, Clarkson University Bioethics Masters Program, Cleveland Clinic Department of Bioethics, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and University of Arizona College of Medicine.