Op-Eds
New York Times
This Is the Wrong Way to Distribute Badly Needed Vaccines, May 24, 2021 (with Ezekiel J. Emanuel).
How the Coronavirus May Force Doctors to Decide Who Lives, Who Dies, Mar. 12, 2020 (with Ezekiel J. Emanuel & James P. Phillips)
Washington Post
Why the FDA Was Wrong to Delay Authorization of Vaccines for Kids Under 5, Feb. 5, 2022 (with Alyssa Burgart and Emily A. Largent)
In the Line for Scarce Covid Treatments, Immunocompromised Americans Should Go Before the Unvaccinated, Jan. 26, 2022 (with Emily A. Largent)
Should Booster Shots be Mandatory? It’s Hard to Justify. Nov. 1, 2021.
Why The Biden Administration’s Recommendation on Booster Shots Is a Mistake, Aug. 18, 2021 (with William F. Parker).
Millions of Vaccines Are About to Expire. The U.S. Might Just Let Them Go to Waste, July 27, 2021 (with Holly Fernandez Lynch).
Yes, It’s Legal for Businesses and Schools to Require You to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine, May 4, 2021 (with Holly Fernandez Lynch).
Extending the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause for a Week Was a Deadly Mistake, Apr. 17, 2021 (with William F. Parker)
Age-Based Vaccine Distribution Is Not Only Unethical. It’s Also Bad Health Policy, Mar. 9, 2021 (with Emily A. Largent and Ezekiel J. Emanuel)
What Are the Ethics Behind Covid-19 “Immunity Passports”?, May 10, 2020 (with Ezekiel J. Emanuel)
Boston Globe
We Can Help Many of the 2,200 People Dying of COVID Every Day, Feb. 2, 2022 (with Ezekiel J. Emanuel).
American COVID Boosters and Global Vaccinations: How to Ensure Both Get Done, Sept. 9, 2021 (with William F. Parker and Ezekiel J. Emanuel).
US Should Share Vaccines It’s Not Using with the World, Mar. 31, 2021 (with Ezekiel J. Emanuel).
Others
In the Face of a COVID Surge, The US Should Delay Second Doses, USA Today, Apr. 8, 2021 (with Ezekiel J. Emanuel & William Fiske Parker).
Fair Coronavirus Triage Guidelines—Not Business as Usual—Will Save More Patients with Disabilities from Covid-19, Denver Post, Apr. 7, 2020 (with Joseph Millum).
Blog Posts
Bill of Health - Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School
How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies, Jan. 31, 2022 (with Monica Peek and Seema Shah).
Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited?, Oct. 6, 2021 (with Patricia J. Zettler and Holly Fernandez Lynch).
Can Vaccine Allocation Plans Legally Respond to Racial Disparities? Mar. 29, 2021.
Arizona’s Crisis Standards of Care and Fair Allocation of Resources During COVID-19, Aug 6, 2020.
How Triage During COVID-19 Can be Fair to Patients with Disabilities, Apr. 13, 2020.
Pandemic Guidelines, Not Changed Malpractice Rules, Are the Right Response to COVID-19, Mar. 30, 2020 (with Valerie Gutmann Koch & Wendy Netter Epstein).
Do Pharmaceutical Patents Generate Unique Global Health Duties? Dec. 12, 2019.
What Should We Ask About Age-Based Criteria in Healthcare?, May 1, 2019.
Vulnerability, Coercion, and Undue Influence: From the Mud into the Muck? Nov. 23, 2015.
Others
Who Should Be Prioritized for Scarce Medical Assistance? Baylor College of Medicine Blog, Jan. 21, 2022.
Vaccinating the World: The Problem with Drop-in-the-Bucket Thinking, American Journal of Bioethics Blog, Oct. 6, 2021.
Philosophers on Access to Medicine, Daily Nous, Oct. 28, 2020.,
Diversity and Solidarity in Response to Covid-19, Hastings Bioethics Forum, May 13, 2020 (with David Wasserman)
The Action-Inaction Distinction Before NFIB v. Sebelius, Law & Biosciences Blog, July 22, 2012.