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Pandemic Fallout: Unmasking Ethical Failures
Dr. Ruth Faden explains what happened during COVID and how we can do better.
According to the WHO, the COVID pandemic killed almost seven million people. The full bill was undoubtedly far greater, not only in terms of lives lost, but of liberties suspended, economies disrupted, educations interrupted, economic development foregone. All in all, the pandemic was one of the blackest swans to have landed in the global pond in a long time.
It was also a colossal ethical failure. Remember "We are all in this together?” Well, we weren’t. Although the pandemic was a global problem that obviously…
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