Bioethics links for the day: 3/30/2021

"New accounts detail how New York health officials were told to prioritize coronavirus testing of people connected to Andrew Cuomo" If this is true it is troubling. #bioethics https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cuomo-priority-covid-testing/2021/03/29/79d40aa0-8e6d-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html?tid=ss_tw

I realize it may be hard in a crisis to know true numbers and revisions may be necessary. This seems excessive, as if someone wasn't trying to keep accurate numbers. If they had no way to get anywhere near accurate numbers than say so. Maybe by using phrases such "as at least this many deaths," or "we don't know but we think."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56558059?fbclid=IwAR3WQoNq--R1HyEQ0KMKNkg0WgyoSeejjbdYtee51vZ7Lrg3ivnhJHCEjJc

The U.S. expressed concern over a WHO-led inquiry on Covid-19 origins, called for a transparent review of data #covid19 #bioethics https://www.wsj.com/articles/countries-call-for-pact-to-improve-response-to-next-pandemic-11617100287?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter

"Parents Are Demanding Surrogates Who Won’t Get the COVID Vaccine" #bioethics https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpqe3/parents-are-demanding-surrogates-who-wont-get-the-covid-vaccine

Twin Peaks: more twinning in humans than ever before. #bioethics https://academic.oup.com/humrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humrep/deab029/6168658#.YGPfPjWzW1E.twitter

Can machines be moral? #bioethics https://shar.es/ao9ah6

Forcibly sterilized during Fujimori dictatorship, thousands of Peruvian women demand justice #bioethics https://shar.es/ao9a4Z

Injustice for the sake of public health: Freeing prisoners in Portugal during the COVID‐19 pandemic #bioethics https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bioe.12866?campaign=wolearlyview#.YGPkaKTwuR8.twitter

Triaging ethical issues in the coronavirus pandemic: how to prioritize bioethics research during public health emergencies #bioethics https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bioe.12859?campaign=wolearlyview#.YGPk8yWkK0A.twitter

" Persons with pre‐dementia have no Kantian duty to die" #bioethics https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bioe.12865?campaign=wolearlyview#.YGPmnvIzBKA.twitter

This is a response to Cooley’s chapter: Kantian Obligatory Suicide: Further Developments

In: Re-Imaging Death and Dying : https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9781904710820/BP000023.xml

"Europe’s Vaccine Ethics Call: Do No Harm and Let More Die?" #bioethics https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/world/europe/europe-vaccine-astrazeneca-interpreter.html?smid=tw-share