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Guidelines for Reopening

The risks of a pandemic linger even as treatments and vaccines become available.

Communities look for ways to scale back but not eliminate physical distancing measures, and to reopen businesses.

How can a community ethically move towards a “new normal”?

Select a common ethical issue to see recommendations for ethical action:



What is Pandemic Ethics?

A pandemic is pervasive in scope and touches virtually every human-made system. In this guidance, we focus on ethics in a government’s or an employer’s actions in a pandemic.

Public health ethics addresses the relationship between those governing or administrating and the population or employees they serve. They are best summarized by the Public Health Code of Ethics of the American Public Health Association.

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