PANDEMICS

Concerns raised about Covid-19 and moral distress

Xavier Symons | 28 June 2020 | Comments

tags: covid-19, icu, moral distress, moral injury, pandemics

Medical assocations have warned of the moral stress that COVID-19 can place on clinicians.

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Ethicists double down on utilitarian framework for pandemics

Xavier Symons | 31 May 2020 | Comments

tags: covid-19, isolation, pandemics, rationing, utilitarianism

Three Oxford ethicists have defended utilitarian pandemic ethics.

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Covid-19 pandemic could lead to unprecedented increase in deaths of despair

Xavier Symons | 10 May 2020 | Comments

tags: coronavirus, covid-19, pandemics, suicide

A new study warns of an epidemic of deaths of despair.

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Should we ban wet markets?

Xavier Symons | 04 April 2020 | Comments

tags: animal rights, china, coronavirus, pandemics, wet markets

Commentators say wet-markets are unethical and a danger to humanity.

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US ethicists issue utilitarian manifesto for coronavirus rationing

Xavier Symons | 28 March 2020 | Comments

tags: coronavirus, healthcare rationing, pandemics, resource allocation, vaccination

Above all, we should maximise benefits.

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Should we sacrifice older people to save the economy?

Xavier Symons | 28 March 2020 | Comments

tags: coronavirus, isolation, pandemics, quarantine, us

A senior republican politician is ready to sacrifice himself.

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Prison advocates call for decarceration during pandemic

Xavier Symons | 21 March 2020 | Comments

tags: coronavirus, pandemics, prisons

Prison populations are at great risk from the outbreak.

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Coronavirus and the ethics of home isolation

Xavier Symons | 21 March 2020 | Comments

tags: coronavirus, isolation, pandemics, quarantine

Staying at home can be ethically complicated.

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China slammed for lack of transparency on coronavirus

Xavier Symons | 01 February 2020 | Comments

tags: china, coronavirus, pandemics, transparency

Chinese authorities stand accused of a coronavirus cover-up.

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The ‘greatest pandemic in history’ did its deadly work 100 years ago

Richard Gunderman | 13 January 2018 | Comments

tags: 1918, epidemics, pandemics

The ten myths about a flu which killed missions in and after World War I