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How do public health measures create ethical challenges for individuals and policymakers?
BIOETHICS / Health Care Ethics
"As the recent global pandemic acutely brought to light, matters of public health can also be relevant to the lives of (healthy) individuals. Debates on allocating hospital beds, vaccines and other therapeutic resources, lockdown measures, and vaccine mandates—while challenging for policymakers—also offer puzzling cases for ethicists."
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