{"id":3720,"date":"2020-03-25T02:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T01:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2020-03-25T06:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:16:08","slug":"covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2020\/03\/25\/covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Hemingway understood courage to be \u201cgrace under pressure\u201d and doctors, nurses and health care professionals have been profoundly courageous in the face of the Covid 19 pandemic. It is too early for philosophical or scholarly reflection upon this crisis, the priority should be to find a path through it and for those of us not on the front line, to find ways of supporting those who are.\u00a0 In response to the outbreak of other infectious diseases, the<em> Journal of Medical Ethics <\/em>has published papers that chart a course through the ethical issues they have raised. We\u2019re going to publish links to such papers on the JME blog and Facebook page over the coming days. \u00a0We\u2019ll be making relevant papers open access over the coming days and prioritizing new content that\u2019s clinically relevant in the journal and on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts are with you all.<\/p>\n<p>Professor John McMillan<br \/>\nEditor in Chief<\/p>\n<p>Open access papers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/content\/44\/1\/3\">Calain, Philippe. &#8220;The Ebola Clinical Trials: A Precedent for Research Ethics in Disasters.&#8221; Journal of Medical Ethics 44, no. 1 (2018): 3.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/content\/41\/1\/107\">Dawson, Angus J. &#8220;Ebola: What It Tells Us About Medical Ethics.&#8221; Journal of Medical Ethics 41, no. 1 (2015): 107.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/content\/45\/10\/662\">Binik, Ariella. &#8220;Delaying and Withholding Interventions: Ethics and the Stepped Wedge Trial.&#8221; Journal of Medical Ethics 45, no. 10 (2019): 662.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Hemingway understood courage to be \u201cgrace under pressure\u201d and doctors, nurses and health care professionals have been profoundly courageous in the face of the Covid 19 pandemic. 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