Global Medicine

Ethical Dilemmas Posed by COVID-19


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Host: Joshua Sharfstein, MD
Guest: Jeffrey Kahn, MD
Guest: Nancy E. Kass, ScD

Is it right to publicly disclose information about people who get sick with COVID-19? What are society’s obligations to people who are quarantined? Is it time to start thinking about how to allocate critical healthcare resources in case this epidemic stretches the healthcare system beyond its capacity to care for everyone? Dr. Josh Sharfstein speaks with renowned ethicists Jeffery Kahn and Nancy Kass, the director and deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

Published March 16, 2020

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