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CHAPTER D-1
How Should We Allocate Health and
Social Resources During a Pandemic?
Sridhar Venkatapuram*
Abstract
In this chapter, I argue that the particular use and applications of two
scientific ideas profoundly affected national pandemic responses,
including the allocation of resources, with significant harmful impli-
cations for social and health equity. First, the familiar “contain and
control” approach to infectious diseases was applied maximally by
countries (through national lockdowns) and was without precedent.
Second, the epidemic forecasting models and modelling that were so
influential early on were mono-dimensional; they modelled scenarios
of how human bodies will likely spread infections, and of the bio-
logical impacts (infected, recovered, or dead) over time. These mod-
els erased acute and endemic vulnerabilities, and were not capable
of identifying the impacts of policies to reduce virus transmissions
on other health and well-being issues, or on other important social
domains (for example, the economy).
* Associate Professor, King’s College London, UK.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International