Menu10/5/20: With news about the pandemic and economic conditions, how these two challenges interplay in an ethical manner can escape scrutiny. Tia Powel, MD, has written an essay on the ethics of reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic that was featured on the Psychiatric Times website recently. She writes “A failure to root decisions in data and analysis ultimately leads to moral failures...
She follows by highlighting past crises and how “…those moral failures have played out.” Powel’s article is not long but it allows a bigger picture than normally allowed as we deal with constantly evolving medical, economic and political realities...
