The ethical challenges of the Sars‐CoV‐2 pandemic in the global south and the global north – same and different

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ID19516627
AuthorsUdo Schuklenk (0000-0002-0061-4315, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume20
Issue2
Pages62-64
Publication date2020-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDeveloping World Bioethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1471-8731 • E-ISSN: 1471-8847
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/dewb.12263
PMID32346958
OpenAlexW3020738743
LanguageEN
Citations received4

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

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · China · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Global health · Medical emergency · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political science · Public relations · Triage · Disaster Response and Management · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Virology

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