COVID-19, children, clinical trials and compassion: The ethical case for using innovative or compassionate treatments.
Vic LarcherArt CaplanJoe BrierleyPublished in: Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) (2021)
We argue that children should be permitted, indeed have a right, to access innovative treatments early in any future pandemic, following an individual best interests consideration. This will remain the case until formal studies powered to determine children's optimal treatment commence, when the moral duty switches to ensuring children are enrolled, with any preceding innovative-use data made available to researchers.