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Martinez previously directed the Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion at Notre Dame Law School

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 E-Mail ATS 2021, New York, NY - A weighted "lottery" designed to increase access to the antiviral drug remdesivir during the May-July 2020 COVID-19 surge for those most affected by the coronavirus, including members of the Black, Latinx and indigenous communities, led to more equitable distribution of the badly needed medication, according to research presented at the ATS 2021 International Conference. At a time when supplies of COVID-19 medications were scarce, Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, v...

‘I Need to Know I Tried’ Time-limited trials offer I.C.U. patients and their families a sense of empowerment in the face of low odds. Credit...Elenia Beretta May 10, 2021 In 2019, Dr. Richard Leiter, a palliative care specialist, met a patient and the man’s wife in the intensive care unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The patient, in his 70s, had heart disease and kidney problems. But he had been living at home and doing reasonably well until sepsis, a life-threatening bloo...

Line-Jumping to get COVID-19 Vaccines Driven by Selfishness and Fear “Were seeing an absolutely unethical gaming of the system: If you dont find loopholes to help yourself, people say, youre the sucker. " Theres no doubt that when demand is high and supply is limited, people are capable of outrageous self-regard. by Alfred Lubrano, The Philadelphia Inquirer / February 8, 2021 TNS (TNS) - Feb. 6—Rich, white New Yorkers flock to a low-in...

The (im)morality of line-jumping to get COVID-19 vaccines Alfred Lubrano, The Philadelphia Inquirer © ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Pat DeHorsey gives COVID-19 vaccinations at Montgomery County Community College on Wednesday morning January 6, 2021. Rich, white New Yorkers flock to a low-income Dominican community and crowd out neighborhood people awaiting COVID-19 vaccinations in a cynical moment of intra-city vaccine tourism. Former Sixers’ basketball...