Using Public Health Law to Minimize the Racially Disparate Impact of COVID-19

Govind Persad, Allocating Medicine Fairly in an Unfair Pandemic, __ Illinois L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2021), available at SSRN.

Nadia Sawicki

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been significant public debate about how to fairly allocate scarce medical resources. Questions about resource allocation have become even more pressing now that vaccines are finally being distributed. This has resulted in important body of scholarly work arguing that the allocation of scarce resources for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 […]