Transparency Is Central Ethical Concern During COVID-19 Pandemic
“The response to SARS was a public health success, stamping out the illness with rigorous infection control,” she reports. Although medically successful, the response to SARS spotlighted ethical concerns over a lack of transparency regarding necessary physical restrictions and inevitable rationing. “Perhaps most damaging was the loss of public trust,” McLean laments.
“An ethical response to COVID-19 demands our better selves, relying on hard data, telling the truth with conviction, and rebuilding trust,” she underscores.
Margaret R. McLean, Ph.D., associate director and director of Bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics interviewed by Relias Media.
May 1, 2020