After the pandemic: new responsibilities

Neil Levy; Julian Savulescu

doi:10.1093/phe/phab008

After the pandemic: new responsibilities

Neil Levy, Julian Savulescu

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Abstract

Seasonal influenza kills many hundreds of thousands of people every year. We argue that the current pandemic has lessons we should learn concerning how we should respond to it. Our response to the COVID-19 not only provides us with tools for confronting influenza; it also changes our sense of what is possible. The recognition of how dramatic policy responses to COVID-19 were and how widespread their general acceptance has been allowed us to imagine new and more sweeping responses to influenza. In fact, we not only can grasp how we can reduce its toll; this new knowledge entails new responsibilities to do so. We outline a range of potential interventions to alter social norms and to change structures to reduce influenza transmission, and consider ethical objections to our proposals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	120-133
Number of pages	14
Journal	Public Health Ethics
Volume	14
Issue number	2
Early online date	17 Mar 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phab008
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021
Externally published	Yes

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