Ethical and policy considerations for COVID-19 vaccination modalities: delayed second dose, fractional dose, mixed vaccines
BMJ Glob Health
.
2021 May;6(5):e005912.
doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005912.
Authors
Jonathan Wolff
1
,
Caesar Atuire
2
,
Anant Bhan
3
,
Ezekiel Emanuel
4
,
Ruth Faden
5
,
Prakash Ghimire
6
,
Dirceu Greco
7
,
Calvin W L Ho
8
,
Sonali Kochhar
9
10
,
Surie Moon
11
,
Owen G Schaefer
12
,
Ehsan Shamsi-Gooshki
13
,
Jerome Amir Singh
14
15
,
Maxwell J Smith
16
,
Beatriz Thomé
17
,
Aissatou Touré
18
,
Ross Upshar
19
Affiliations
1
Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, Oxford, UK jonathan.wolff@bsg.ox.ac.uk.
2
Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana.
3
Centre for Ethics, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
4
Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
5
Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
6
Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal.
7
Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
8
Department of Law, and Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong.
9
Global Healthcare Consulting, New Delhi, India.
10
Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
11
Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneve, Switzerland.
12
Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
13
Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
14
Howard College School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
15
Division of Clinical Public Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
16
Preventive Medicine Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
17
Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
18
Indpendent consultant, Dakar, Senegal.
19
Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
PMID:
33958395
PMCID:
PMC8103551
DOI:
10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005912
No abstract available
Keywords:
COVID-19; vaccines.
MeSH terms
COVID-19 Vaccines* / administration & dosage
Health Policy*
Humans
Immunization Schedule
Time Factors
Vaccination* / ethics
Vaccination* / methods
Substances
COVID-19 Vaccines