Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Healthcare Rationing

The authors are grateful for input from several experts in bioethics, emergency healthcare, and webinar participants at Johns Hopkins University, London Business School, Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, Australasian Microeconomic Theory Seminars, the HELP! (HEaLth and Pandemics) Econ Working Group Seminar Series, Penntheon Webinar Series, Stockholm School of Economics Corona Economic Research Network Webinar Series, UK Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory, NBER Workshop on Market Design, Harvard-MIT Theory Workshop, Virtual Market Design Seminar Series, University of Tokyo Theory Seminar, CUHK-HKU-HKUST Theory Seminar, North Carolina State University Theory Seminar, University of Birmingham Seminar, Brazilian School of Economics Seminar, University of Southern California Theory Seminar, 54th Memorial Gilbert Lecture at University of Rochester, and the University of Alabama Culverhouse Seminar. Nikhil Agarwal, Alex Rees-Jones, Robert Truog, Iván Werning, and Douglas White provided helpful comments. Feedback from an anonymous Associate Editor, three anonymous referees, David Delacrétaz, Fuhito Kojima, Govind Persad, and Alex Teytelboym was particularly valuable. This version supersedes: “Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing,” NBER Working Paper 26951, April 2020.