How to Decide Who Should Get a COVID-19 Vaccine First

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September 03, 2020

Dear Reader, Check out highlights from today's top stories: If and when a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine is available, what is the fairest way to distribute it? A group of public health experts laid out an ethical framework that is geared toward limiting harm and avoiding discrimination. A quantum physics experiment has demonstrated an important step toward achieving quantum cryptography among many users, an essential requirement for a secure quantum Internet. Scientists have estimated that around 200 million trees in tropical forests die each year due to lightning.

Sunya Bhutta, Senior Editor, Audience Engagement @sunyaaa

Medicine How to Decide Who Should Get a COVID-19 Vaccine First Medical ethicist Ezekiel Emanuel discusses a framework for equitably allocating COVID-19 vaccines based on preventing premature deaths and mitigating long-term economic impacts By Jim Daley

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Physics Physicists Create City-Sized Ultrasecure Quantum Network Capable of connecting eight or more users across distances of 17 kilometers, the demonstration is another milestone toward developing a fully quantum Internet By Anil Ananthaswamy

Arts & Culture Science on the Small Screen, Retro Style Here's what educational TV from the late 1940s and early 1950s can teach us today By Ingrid Ockert

EARTH Death by Lightning Is Common for Tropical Trees A study estimates that 200 million trees in the tropics are mowed down by lightning annually. By Scott Hershberger | 02:22

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "We have to be tied to the facts of a pandemic--this is not ethics divorced from empirical data. Theory and practice work hand in hand, and the epidemiology is going to determine hotspots and where you distribute the vaccine first." Ezekiel J. Emanuel, chair of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine

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