Choices in a Crisis - Individual Preferences among SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines

Daniel B Kramer1, Douglas J Opel1, Efthimios Parasidis1

  • 1From the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston (D.B.K.); the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children's Research Institute - both in Seattle (D.J.O.); the Moritz College of Law and College of Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus (E.P.); and Stanford Health Policy and the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Law School; and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies - all in Stanford, CA (M.M.M.).

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