@article{Smith2021-dz,

title = {Top five ethical lessons of COVID-19 that the world must learn},

author = {Maxwell J Smith and Aasim Ahmad and Thalia Arawi and Angus Dawson and Ezekiel J Emanuel and Tina Garani-Papadatos and Prakash Ghimire and Zubairu Iliyasu and Ruipeng Lei and Ignacio Mastroleo and Roli Mathur and Joseph Okeibunor and Michael Parker and Carla Saenz and Beatriz Thomé and Ross E G Upshur and Teck Chuan Voo},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

urldate = {2021-01-01},

journal = {Wellcome Open Res},

volume = {6},

pages = {17},

abstract = {As the world reflects upon one year since the first cases of 

 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and prepare for and 

 experience surges in cases, it is important to identify the most 

 crucial ethical issues that might lie ahead so that countries are 

 able to plan accordingly. Some ethical issues are rather obvious 

 to predict, such as the ethical issues surrounding the use of 

 immunity certificates, contact tracing, and the fair allocation 

 of vaccines globally. Yet, the most significant ethical challenge 

 that the world must address in the next year and beyond is to 

 ensure that we learn the ethical lessons of the first year of 

 this pandemic. Learning from our collective experiences thus far 

 constitutes our greatest moral obligation. Appreciating that 

 decision-making in the context of a pandemic is constrained by 

 unprecedented complexity and uncertainty, beginning in June 2020, 

 an international group of 17 experts in bioethics spanning 15 

 countries (including low-, middle-, and high-income countries) 

 met virtually to identify what we considered to be the most 

 significant ethical challenges and accompanying lessons faced 

 thus far in the COVID-19 pandemic. Once collected, the group met 

 over the course of several virtual meetings to identify 

 challenges and lessons that are analytically distinct in order to 

 identify common ethical themes under which different challenges 

 and lessons could be grouped. The result, described in this 

 paper, is what this expert group consider to be the top five 

 ethical lessons from the initial experience with COVID-19 that 

 must be learned.},

keywords = {COVID-19; Ethics},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}