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ArticleFrontiers in public health2025

Ethical burdens of COVID-19 testing: the case for a research agenda to improve effectiveness and equity in pandemic response.

Dana Howard, Abigail Norris Turner, Julianna Nemeth, Tasleem J Padamsee

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Dana HowardDepartment of Biomedical Education and Anatomy, Center for Bioethics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States.
Abigail Norris TurnerCollege of Medicine and College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
Julianna NemethCollege of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
Tasleem J PadamseeCollege of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

US public health response to COVID-19 has focused on increasing availability and access to viral testing, which raises three sets of potential problems: (1) lack of testing uptake, (2) diminished public health impact of testing, and (3) loss of access to necessary social goods and supports. Moreover, these problems are encountered

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COVID-19COVID-19 TestingHealthcare DisparitiesHealth EquityHealth Services AccessibilityPublic HealthHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2United StatesVulnerable PopulationsCOVID-19decisional burdensethicshealth equityresearch methodssocioeconomic factors

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PMID40115334
PMCPMC11922872

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