The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, with Laurie Zoloth
Big Brains
English - February 25, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 358 ratingsSociety & Culture Education discovery ideas bigbrains research science storytelling universityofchicago education paul rand academic podcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The coronavirus pandemic has raised countless ethical questions: How do we balance restricting freedoms with protecting others, how do we ethically distribute vaccines, should we force people to get vaccinated—or should we ask healthy people to get infected with COVID-19 in the name of science?
There’s no one better to discuss these dilemmas with than Laurie Zoloth. She’s a Professor of Religion and Ethics at the University of Chicago, one of the leading thinkers on bioethics, and serves on committees and advisory boards with organizations like the CDC and NIH. On this episode, we ask her all our COVID-19 ethical questions—and her answers might surprise you.