The ethical challenges of the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic in the global south and the global north – same and different
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The ethical challenges of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the global south and the global north -same and differentThe global COVID-19 death toll 1 stands at the time of writing at 163,500.By the time you read this, that number will have increased significantly, and it is likely that we won't have seen the end of it by that time.Policy makers in both the global north as well as the global south rose to the challenge, with decidedly mixed responses as well as decidedly mixed results, as comparisons between reported case loads of, say the UK and Germany or between Brazil and the PR of China, show.Discipline specific responses translated into many global collaborative efforts aimed at developing treatments, modelling of the impact of varying policy options on the continuing pandemic, preventive vaccine trials, and so on and so forth.Unsurprisingly, as bioethicists we contributed in our own discipline-specific ways.Firstly, we took aim at determining what we considered relevant ethical issues.We focused initially on producing frameworks or guidance documents in various areas, one of the most prominent of which was fairness in triage decision-making.
Source: Developing World Bioethics
DOI: 10.1111/dewb.12263
Author: Udo Schuklenk
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3020738743