Global Concern on Covid-19 Pandemic
Introduction
Covid-19 is a viral disease caused by a virus known as the corona. The disease emerged from china that affects the respiratory system causing difficulties in breathing. Coronavirus generated a worldwide pandemic that spreads from one person to another through the air droplets produced with an infected person. The virus is spread through close proximity with the person infected. The symptoms of the disease are high fever, cough, sore throats body aches, fatigue, and headaches that can be severe causing deaths in some cases. The virus has no treatment yet but can be avoided too thorough washing of hands, sanitizing the hands, keeping social distance, and staying at home when there is no necessary thing to be done out.
Real-World Case Study of Global Concern on Covid-19
The ethical considerations of the case study on Covid-19 are based on the inventions of the vaccine and the allocation of the resources that can regulate the spread and maintenance of the disease since there is no cure that has been found yet. Medical research and decision making are to be given proper guidance.
Global networks of world health organizations are working together with different centers of Bioethics to establish good networks of the expertise centers to provide support to its members state. The national ethics committee also gets involved by developing guidance by responding to their needs and facilitating communication to countries responding to ethical challenges presented by the virus.
“Why Do Good?” On Resource Allocation
- Ethical frameworks produced in the resource issuing is included in the pandemic plans to be used in the current situation. The concentration of the resources needed in the present situation. For example, giving sanitizers and food to the poor for the people who lost their jobs during the pandemic. The resources should be given out equally, which is ensuring that proper management is done not that some people get and others do not get. Ethical considerations for the medical countermeasures such as vaccines prioritization if gotten, for instance, if a vaccine has been approved then it should be first distributed to the highly infected areas and given to the old age people first or given to the people who are highly at a risk like medical workers.
- The reason of giving first priority to the scarce resources is to ensure that equity is maintained such that if the poor needs the sanitize to be able to keep safe then it should be provided if the hospital needs the ventilators then it should be concentrated on, rather than giving everything to every person not considering their wanted needs. Decisions made to have clear information about the needs and the resources can be considered by weighing and applying allocation using a just process. The decisions should be made based on the criteria of first informing the public on their decision and allow the public to be part of the decision-making process, through the appeal process. All persons to be considered in the decision-making process including the poor and all other religions. The decisions given by various persons should be justified and be ready to be held for them.
Discuss possible constraints or limitations to any of the theories you have discussed within the context of this case
Utility maximization should be leveled up first by concentrating on working towards getting the vaccine as a priority. Distributing it to the most affected areas than the less affected areas will help reduce the high risk of the spread of the virus. The principle of the first come first served should not be considered in emergency cases. Favoring a certain group of people should also be avoided.
The younger people are not at risk of dying of the pandemic so they should not be considered while distributing the vaccine to be the first priority. The people with the weaker immune system should be rather considered.