Gellert George A
703 Sentry Hill, San Antonio, TX 78260, USA.
Ethics Med Public Health. 2021 Mar;16:100611. doi: 10.1016/j.jemep.2020.100611. Epub 2020 Nov 11.
In the midst of the political leadership crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, a framework of public health nonfeasance, misfeasance and malfeasance is described in order to define, categorize and understand the various forms of public health performance failure of the U.S. government during the COVID-19 outbreak response thus far. The framework in turn prompts a number of critical ethical and legal questions whose consideration are in the nation's current and future public health interest, as the nation struggles to engage effective disease control measures to reduce spread of this, and future, pandemics.
在美国因新冠疫情引发政治领导力危机之际，本文描述了一个公共卫生不作为、不当作为和渎职行为的框架，以便界定、分类并理解美国政府在应对新冠疫情爆发至今所出现的各种公共卫生履职不力的形式。这一框架进而引发了一些关键的伦理和法律问题，鉴于美国正在努力采取有效的疾病控制措施以减少此次及未来大流行病的传播，对这些问题的思考符合美国当前及未来的公共卫生利益。
