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The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Forcing Us to Ask Some Very Hard Questions. Are We Ready for the Answers?
The global coronavirus pandemic poses immediate, wide-ranging ethical challenges for governments, health authorities, health workers and the public.
By Paul Komesaroff, Monash University and Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney
The global coronavirus pandemic poses immediate, wide-ranging ethical challenges for governments, health authorities, health workers and the public.
At the heart of these challenges is how best to respond to COVID-19 urgently, yet safely and fairly.
How do we ensure rapid development and delivery of vaccines and other medicines, ethically and with proper oversight? How do we ration and distribute limited healthcare resources? How many of our personal freedoms are we willing to forgo to contain the pandemic?
How do we do this while protecting the vulnerable?
This situation is unique
We ask these hard questions in a unique and rapidly changing environment, with the number of cases and deaths due to COVID-19 rising daily, and with…
