Report lays out ethical guidance for COVID vaccine allocationThe Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security today released an ethical framework for how to allocate and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine once it's been approved but is in limited supply.While the decision about who gets the initial doses of the first approved vaccine in the United States is currently being discussed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the National Academy of Medicine, the paper offers suggestions for groups that, based on publicly available information, would be ethically defensible to include as candidates for high-priority access.The framework emphasizes three broad ethical values: