David A Hoffman
David A Hoffman
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency has amplified both the potential value and the challenges with healthcare providers deploying telehealth solutions. As people across the country find ways to stay at home, tele...
Henry T Greely
Henry T Greely
There is much discussion of adopting COVID-19 immunity certificates to allow those proven to have antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 to resume normal life and help restart the economy. This article points out issues tha...
The use of data from electronic health records in times of a pandemic-a legal and ethical assessment [0.03%]
电子健康记录数据在疫情期间的应用--法律和伦理评估
Karl Stoeger,Martina Schmidhuber
Karl Stoeger
National electronic health record systems controlled (at least in parts) by the patient are becoming increasingly common. During a pandemic, data stored in such records could be used by health authorities to identify persons with a particul...
Legal and ethical implications of wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 for COVID-19 surveillance [0.03%]
废水监测SARS-CoV-2用于COVID-19监控的法律和伦理影响
Lance Gable,Natalie Ram,Jeffrey L Ram
Lance Gable
Scientists have observed that molecular markers for COVID-19 can be detected in wastewater of infected communities both during an outbreak and, in some cases, before the first case is confirmed. The Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
The rise and regulation of thermal facial recognition technology during the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
COVID-19疫情期间热成像人脸识别技术的发展与规制
Meredith Van Natta,Paul Chen,Savannah Herbek et al.
Meredith Van Natta et al.
Neil Levy,Julian Savulescu
Neil Levy
Should non-experts defer to epidemiologists with regard to the response to the coronavirus pandemic? We argue that deference is required with regard to settled science: non-experts (that is, people who may possess expertise of their own but...
Indemnifying precaution: economic insights for regulation of a highly infectious disease [0.03%]
预防补偿：高传染性疾病监管的经济启示
Christopher T Robertson,K Aleks Schaefer,Daniel Scheitrum et al.
Christopher T Robertson et al.
Economic insights are powerful for understanding the challenge of managing a highly infectious disease, such as COVID-19, through behavioral precautions including social distancing. One problem is a form of moral hazard, which arises when s...
Henry T Greely
Henry T Greely
Research ethics in a pandemic: considerations for the use of research infrastructure and resources for public health activities [0.03%]
流行病中的研究伦理：对用于公共健康活动的研究基础设施和资源的使用考虑
Megan Doerr,Jennifer K Wagner
Megan Doerr
The number and size of existing research studies with massive databases and biosample repositories that could be leveraged for public health response against SARS-CoV-2 (or other infectious disease pathogens) are unparalleled in history. Wh...
Qiwei Claire Xue,Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Qiwei Claire Xue
Vaccines play a crucial role in improving global public health, with the ability to stem the spread of infectious diseases and the potential to eradicate them completely. Compared with pharmaceuticals that treat disease, however, preventati...