Global triage of global resources needed

doi:10.1136/bmj.39220.443889.3A

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Daniel J Barnett, instructor1,
Saad B Omer, assistant scientist1,
David P Fidler, professor of law2,
Ran D Balicer, researcher3,
James G Hodge Jr, associate professor4

¹Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
²Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
³Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ramat-Gan, Israel 52394
⁴Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

dbarnett{at}jhsph.edu

Planning for triage of scarce resources in the face of a flu pandemic is not simply an abstract moral dilemma1: it remains unsolved at the highest levels of international planning. Europe remains two to three years away from a state of preparedness for a flu pandemic.2 Previous modelling has shown that a massive and focused use of antivirals and vaccines …