Mechanisms of Cancer and Aging Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom.
Food Lab, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Front Public Health. 2022 Jun 3;10:765016. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.765016. eCollection 2022.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a phenomenal challenge to global health care and will continue to be so in the upcoming months. Beyond its medical toll, COVID-19 has also exacerbated pre-existing social issues and created new inequalities. This has generated a series of ethical problems that will need to be carefully analyzed to avoid repeating similar mistakes in the context of other crises. Among those, we discuss here the bioethical implications of preserving individual freedom in the context of the early response to a pandemic and propose a global approach to the issue that could be applied in future health challenges.
新冠疫情对全球医疗保健构成了巨大挑战,并且在未来几个月仍将如此。除了其对医疗的影响外,新冠疫情还加剧了先前存在的社会问题,并造成了新的不平等。这引发了一系列需要认真分析的伦理问题,以避免在其他危机背景下重蹈覆辙。其中,我们在这里讨论了在大流行早期应对中维护个人自由的生物伦理含义,并提出了一种可应用于未来健康挑战的全球方法。