Bioethical Reflections on COVID-19
Bioethical Reflections on COVID-19
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- 2023
A Lonely death during a pandemic
by Zohar Lederman
in Pulse–voices from the heart of medicine
- Journal Article
- 2023
How Do COVID-19 Vaccine Policies Affect the Young Working Class in the Philippines?
co-authored by Olivia M. Y. Ngan
in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Journal Article
- 2022
Covid-19 in the occupied palestinian territory and Israel’s duty to vaccinate
co-authored by Zohar Lederman
in Journal of Jewish Ethics
- Journal Article
- 2022
Loneliness at the Age of COVID-19
by Zohar Lederman
in Journal of Medical Ethics
- Journal Article
- 2022
The international pandemic preparedness treaty and an emerging digital divide
co-authored by Calvin W. L. Ho
in AsiaGlobal Online
- Media
- 2022
Mainland China’s development of COVID vaccines
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Financial Times
Title: “China rushes to develop an mRNA vaccine as doubts grow over local jabs”
- Media
- 2022
Control of the COVID pandemic in Mainland China
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Financial Times
Title: “‘People are scared’: Xi’an residents struggle to find food and medical help”
- Consultation
- 2022
Consultation regarding mandatory COVID-19 vaccination
Calvin W. L. Ho was consulted by the HKBU FactCheck Service in its fact-checking regarding mandatory COVID-19 vaccination
- Journal Article
- 2022
Governing the access to COVID-19 tools accelerator: Towards greater participation, transparency, and accountability
contributing author: Calvin W. L. Ho
in The Lancet
- Media
- 2022
Views on vaccination against COVID-19 in Mainland China
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: WIRED
Title: “The End Game of China’s Zero-Covid Policy Nightmare”
- Media
- 2022
Whether lawful to vaccinate persons lacking mental capacity without consent from the guardians
Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Uncertain whether COVID vaccination is urgent under the Mental Health Ordinance given the lack of definition of urgency” (《精神健康例無定義「緊急」 學者:打針算否未確定》)[Chinese]
- Journal Article
- 2022
The natural law ethics of public health lockdowns
by Eric C. Ip
in Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
- Policy Report
- 2022
COVID-19 and mandatory vaccination: Ethical considerations
contributing author: Calvin W. L. Ho
in Policy Report of the World Health Organization
- Journal Article
- 2022
Reproductive Health Deemed “Non-Essential” During COVID-19: A Neglected Health Vulnerability
lead co-author: Olivia M. Y. Ngan
in Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
- Media
- 2022
Legal ramifications should lockdown be imposed in Hong Kong
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: South China Morning Post
Title: “‘It has to be reasonable’: As Hong Kong weighs coronavirus testing lockdown, experts consider legal implications”
- Blog Essay
- 2021
COVID-19 exceptionalism and the ‘new normal’ of authoritarian governance
co-authored by Eric C. Ip
in Administrative Law in the Common Law
- Media
- 2021
From Hong Kong to Australia, how much death and sickness lie ahead as vaccination rates max out?
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: South China Morning Post
- Media
- 2021
Youth vaccination arrangements and vaccine donation
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Sing Tao Daily
Title: “Experts urged to speak to students of alma mater to ease their concerns” (《釋除師弟妹疑慮 專家返母校解說》) [Chinese]
- Media
- 2021
Setting targets of vaccination rates hoping to return to pre-pandemic life
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: South China Morning Post
Title: “How can Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong return to pre-pandemic life? Vaccines, timetables, and targets”
- Policy Document
- 2021
Ethical framework for WHO’s work in the access to COVID-19 tools accelerator (“ACT-Accelerator”)
Contributor: Calvin W. L. Ho
- Media
- 2021
Ethical implications of offering incentives and rewards for vaccination
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: South China Morning Post
Title: “Hong Kong vaccine perks: Giveaways for coronavirus jabs are nice, but reluctant residents prefer assurance, facts, paid days off”
- Others
- 2021
Artificial intelligence in healthcare and COVID-19 prevention poses challenges to privacy in Taiwan
Interviewed: Chih-hsing Ho
Medium: Academia Sinica’s popular science website (《研之有物》)
Title: “Artificial intelligence in healthcare and COVID-19 prevention poses challenges to privacy” (《AI 助陣醫學、防疫,個人隱私難兩全?》)[Chinese]
- Media
- 2021
Application process for Hong Kong’s COVID-19 vaccine indemnity fund
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Now News
Title: “Applicant who suffered facial paralysis after BioNTech inoculation dissatisfied with the lack of transparency of the application process for the indemnity fund” (《接種復必泰後面癱 申請人不滿疫苗保障基金欠透明》) [Chinese]
- Media
- 2021
Calvin W. L. Ho on incentivising vaccination and the Hong Kong – Singapore travel bubble
Medium: Radio Television Hong Kong
- Media
- 2021
Monitoring of vaccine bubble for effectiveness and harms
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: HK01
Title: “Ethicists suggest sunset clause for vaccine bubble in view of restrictions otherwise imposed on freedoms” (《疫苗氣泡︱倫理學者倡措施設日落條款 否則等同限制市民自由》) [Chinese]
- Media
- 2021
Pressure to get vaccinated given restrictions on visits to public hospitals for the unvaccinated
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Those who hope to visit hospitalised loved ones worry about the consequences of being forced to get vaccinated. Prolonged hospitalisation of brother with half-dead brain cells; Query: Who will take care of them if vaccination goes wrong?” (《盼探殘疾至親 怕逼打針出事 弟腦細胞半死長住院 同路人嘆「有事誰照顧他們?」》) [Chinese]
- Media
- 2021
Differential treatments for the vaccinated and the unvaccinated
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Difficult to implement; expert says the offering of privileges for the vaccinated should not be a long-term measure” (《執行難 專家:接種者不可能長享好處》) [Chinese]
- Media
- 2021
Differential treatments in the workplace for the vaccinated and the un vaccinated
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Mahjong parlour fights to resume business, requiring employees to provide medical proof if they don’t want to get vaccinated. Equal Opportunities Commission says “reasonably necessary ” measures are not against the law, while HKCTU argues it is certainly unfair” (《雀館爭復業 員工不想打疫苗須醫生證明 平機會稱「合理地需要」不違法 工盟:肯定不公》) [Chinese]
- Media
- 2021
Compensation for employees affected by the vaccination bubble
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: HK01
Title: “Ethics scholar suggests option to replace vaccination with testing for workers affected by the vaccine bubble” (《疫苗氣泡︱倫理學者:工作屬基本人權 不打針者應准檢測取代》) [Chinese]
- Webinar
- 2021
Recording of book talk: “Covid-19 in Asia – law and policy contexts” (Oxford, 2020)
Discussants: Including Calvin W. L. Ho and Daisy Cheung, co-authors of the chapter “Hong Kong: The healthcare professions and the outbreak”
- Policy Document
- 2021
COVID-19 vaccine trial designs in the context of authorized COVID-19 vaccines and expanding global access: Ethical considerations
contributor: Calvin W. L. Ho
in World Health Organization
- Media
- 2021
Views on the proposal of a vaccine pass system for Hong Kong
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Radio Television Hong Kong
Programme “Talkabout”
- Journal Article
- 2021
International comparisons of COVID-19 case and mortality data and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions: A plea for reconsideration
co-authored by Eric C. Ip
in Journal of Biosocial Science
- Book Chapter
- 2021
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China: Legal response to Covid-19
co-authored by Eric C. Ip
in The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19 (Oxford University Press)
- Media
- 2021
China’s rollout to vaccinate target populations
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Guardian
Title: “New year, new outbreak: China rushes to vaccinate 50 million as holiday looms”
- Policy Document
- 2021
Framework for the governance of personal data for the access to COVID-19 tools accelerator
Contributor: Calvin W. L. Ho
- Correspondence
- 2021
Placebo use and unblinding in COVID-19 vaccine trials: Recommendations of a WHO Expert Working Group
co-authored by Calvin W. L. Ho
in Nature Medicine
- Media
- 2021
Views on the proposal of a vaccine pass system for Hong Kong (Chinese)
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Radio Television Hong Kong
Programme “Open Line Open View” (starting from 37:42)
- Media
- 2021
Impact of Hong Kong’s “vaccine bubble” on unvaccinated employees
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: South China Morning Post
Title: “Coronavirus: no jab, no job, and no fun? Some in Hong Kong cry foul over perceived vaccine discrimination”
- Media
- 2021
Return to normality despite continuing COVID-19 concerns
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: South China Morning Post
Title: “How many deaths are acceptable in ‘zero- COVID-19’ economies? From Australia to Hong Kong, that’s the tough question”
- Blog Post
- 2021
Courts, proportionality and COVID-19 lockdowns
by Eric C. Ip
in IACL-AIDC Blog, International Association of Constitutional Law
- Blog Post
- 2020
What are the obligations of the state? A public mental health ethics perspective on the Covid-19 lockdowns
authors: Daisy Cheung & Eric C. Ip
in Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) Blog
- Media
- 2020
COVID-19 mobile apps for contact tracing and mass surveillance
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: University World News
Title: “COVID-19 apps – Are there enough ethical safeguards?”
- Journal Article
- 2020
COVID-19 emergency measures and the impending authoritarian pandemic
co-author: Eric C. Ip
in Journal of Law and the Biosciences
- Presentation
- 2020
Mass surveillance & privacy
by Calvin W. L. Ho
in “Bioethics and COVID-19” webinar
- Media
- 2020
Rationing intensive-care resources amid COVID-19
Interviewed: Daisy Cheung
Medium: Ming Pao
Title: “Who should be saved when ICU capacity is outstripped by demand?” (《ICU爆滿 救邊個先?》) [Chinese] & “Putting in place guidelines for healthcare workers will reduce their litigation risk” (《知多啲:及早制訂指引 免醫護承擔法律風險》)[Chinese]
- Journal Article
- 2020
Inequities, vulnerabilities and ethics in the time of COVID-19: Diverse perspectives from the APRU global health program
co-authored by Calvin W. L. Ho
in Journal of Global Health Science
- Policy Document
- 2020
Policy brief of the World Health Organization: “Emergency use designation of COVID-19 candidate vaccines: Ethical considerations for current and future COVID-19 placebo-controlled vaccine trials and trial unblinding”
contributor: Calvin W. L. Ho
in World Health Organization
- Journal Article
- 2020
Heralding the digitalization of life in post-pandemic East Asian societies
co-authored by Calvin W. L. Ho
in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
- Editorial
- 2020
How the COVID-19 pandemic could reshape palliative care into high-tech and high-touch care: an ethics of care perspective
co-authored by Calvin W. L. Ho
in Cancer Nursing
- Journal Article
- 2020
Preparing for the coming transnational cancer crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic
co-authored by Eric C. Ip
in Cancer Causes & Control
- Presentation
- 2020
Public law responses to COVID-19: Lessons (or cautions) from Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong
by Calvin W. L. Ho and Daisy Cheung
in “Public law responses to COVID-19: Lessons (or cautions) from Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong” Webinar
- Journal Article
- 2020
Hong Kong—The unprecedented promulgation of public health emergency regulations amid the COVID-19 outbreak
by Eric C. Ip
in Public Law
- Journal Article
- 2020
COVID-19 lockdowns: A public mental health ethics perspective
by Daisy Cheung & Eric C. Ip
in Asian Bioethics Review
- Presentation
- 2020
Fast-tracking digitalization in East Asia
by Calvin W. L. Ho
in “Ethics & COVID-19 webinar series: Regional perspectives – East Asia” webinar
- Conference Report
- 2020
Philip Beh spoke on the “Collateral Damage of COVID-19” in the 7th Annual Catholic Bioethics Conference
by Justin Y. C. Wong (CMEL’s Research Assistant)
- Grant
- 2020
Grant from ETH Zurich and the State Secretariat for Education, research and innovation to explore if the publiCo platform for the study of COVID-19-related public perception is transferable to selected Asian contexts
Co-Investigator: Calvin W. L. Ho
- Journal Article
- 2020
Immunity certification for COVID-19: Ethical considerations
co-authored by Calvin W. L. Ho
in Bulletin of the World Health Organization
- Correspondence
- 2020
Solutions to COVID-19 data sharing
co-authored by Calvin W. L. Ho
in The Lancet Digital Health
- Media
- 2020
Regulatory and safety concerns over vaccines
Interviewed: Calvin W. L. Ho
Medium: Financial Times
Title: “Anxiety clouds China’s rush to vaccinate parts of the world”
- Book Chapter
- 2020
Hong Kong: The healthcare professions and the outbreak
by Calvin W. L. Ho & Daisy Cheung
in Covid-19 in Asia (Oxford University Press)
- Presentation
- 2020
Social distance, social response: Solutions and strategies for coping with COVID-19
by Daisy Cheung & Eric C. Ip
in “Social distance, social response: Solutions and strategies for coping with COVID-19” Webinar
- Journal Article
- 2020
COVID-19 emergency measures are hurting democracy globally
co-authored by Eric C. Ip
in American Journal of Public Health