Ethics in the time of COVID-19

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Ethics in the time of COVID-19 Ethics in the time of COVID-19 23/10/2020 | 3 MINS The rapid passage of COVID-19 around the globe has shed an intense light on a number of critical ethical issuesΓÇöfrom concerns about the rationing and just distribution of scarce resources such as ventilators and medicines; to questions of how to best respond to the vastly unequal impact of the virus across a range of demographic markers; to issues related to the limitations and extent of the power of states to impose restrictions and surveillance on their citizens; to the fraught business of vaccine development, distribution and uptake. Take the example of resource scarcity. When COVID-19 began to spread rapidly through the world the immediate response was to institute social distancing in an effort to ΓÇÿflatten the curveΓÇÖ. At least one significant aspect of the desired ΓÇÿflatteningΓÇÖ was that it was intended to protect the health systems of various nations from being unable to cope with the exponential increase in demand. For example, because of th

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Ethics in the time of COVID-19 Ethics in the time of COVID-19 23/10/2020 | 3 MINS The rapid passage of COVID-19 around the globe has shed an intense light on a number of critical ethical issuesΓÇöfrom concerns about the rationing and just distribution of scarce resources such as ventilators and medicines; to questions of how to best respond to the vastly unequal impact of the virus across a range of demographic markers; to issues related to the limitations and extent of the power of states to impose restrictions and surveillance on their citizens; to the fraught business of vaccine development, distribution and uptake.

When COVID-19 began to spread rapidly through the world the immediate response was to institute social distancing in an effort to ΓÇÿflatten the curveΓÇÖ.

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