LEARNING MATERIAL

• PBS Idea Channel: How do you design a just society? (Video)At:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3gWGtf_w_s
• Millum, Joseph: "Global Bioethics and Political Theory," in Millum, Joseph and Emanuel, Ezequiel (Eds):Global Justice and Bioethics,Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 17-36

QUESTIONS

1. A private company hasdeveloped a vaccine, Co23, that is 99.7 effective against the Coronavirus. Its production costs are only 1.5 dollars per vaccine. However, the CEO of the company knows that people will be willing to pay more money, given the actual crisis. She knows that if she sells Co23 for 50 dollars per vaccine, most people in the economically developed countries will be able to pay for it, and governments will be able to supply the vaccine. However, she also knows that some of the poorest countries will not be able to provide Co23 to the entire population. If the CEO sells the vaccine for less than 40 dollars, the company will be losing billions of dollars in revenue. This money could be used to develop drugs against other types of diseases. If she does not, hundreds of thousands of people may die. What must she do? Use Virtue Ethics to answer this question.
2. Use Rawls's idea of the Original Position to analyze the Health Care Worker Drain case explained by Millum. Must rich governments stop hiring health professionals from poor countries? Should poor countries be compensated? Why? Why not?