Philosophy Wire: Who gets to live?

During the Covid-19 pandemic, nineteen global health experts from around the world proposed a new, three-phase plan for vaccine distribution - called the Fair Priority Model - which aimed to reduce premature deaths and other irreversible health consequences from COVID-19. [1] Hard question. Who will live? Who will die? Difficult to answer when we do not know what life and death is. So we settle with what we know. And we love what we know. Don’t we? Yes, you love what you know. Could you not? Perhaps. If you knew something else…

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