COVID-19

=== Bioethics ===
Since the outbreak of the COVID‑19 pandemic, scholars have explored the [[bioethics]], [[normative economics]], and [[political theories]] of [[healthcare policy|healthcare policies]] related to the public health crisis.<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal || vauthors = Maccaro A, Piaggio D, Pagliara S, Pecchia L | title = The role of ethics in science: a systematic literature review from the first wave of COVID-19 | journal = Health and Technology | volume = 11 | issue = 5 | pages = 1063–1071 | date = June 2021 | pmid = 34104626 | pmc = 8175060 | doi = 10.1007/s12553-021-00570-6|issn=2190-7188 }}</ref> Academics have pointed to the moral distress of healthcare workers, ethics of distributing scarce healthcare resources such as ventilators,<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal || vauthors = McGuire AL, Aulisio MP, Davis FD, Erwin C, Harter TD, Jagsi R, Klitzman R, Macauley R, Racine E, Wolf SM, Wynia M, Wolpe PR  | title = Ethical Challenges Arising in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Overview from the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) Task Force | journal = The American Journal of Bioethics | volume = 20 | issue = 7 | pages = 15–27 | date = July 2020 | pmid = 32511078 | doi = 10.1080/15265161.2020.1764138 | s2cid = 219552665 }}</ref> and the global justice of vaccine diplomacies.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} The socio-economic inequalities between genders,<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal || vauthors = Wenham C, Smith J, Morgan R | title = COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak | journal = Lancet | volume = 395 | issue = 10227 | pages = 846–848 | date = March 2020 | pmid = 32151325 | pmc = 7124625 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30526-2 }}</ref> races,<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal || vauthors = Tolchin B, Hull SC, Kraschel K | title = Triage and justice in an unjust pandemic: ethical allocation of scarce medical resources in the setting of racial and socioeconomic disparities | journal = Journal of Medical Ethics | volume = 47 | issue = 3 | pages = 200–202 | date = October 2020 | pmid = 33067315 | doi = 10.1136/medethics-2020-106457 | s2cid = 223558059 }}</ref> groups with disabilities,<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal || vauthors = Sabatello M, Burke TB, McDonald KE, Appelbaum PS | title = Disability, Ethics, and Health Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic | journal = American Journal of Public Health | volume = 110 | issue = 10 | pages = 1523–1527 | date = October 2020 | pmid = 32816541 | pmc = 7483109 | doi = 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305837 }}</ref> communities,<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal || vauthors = Chin T, Kahn R, Li R, Chen JT, Krieger N, Buckee CO, Balsari S, Kiang MV  | title = US-county level variation in intersecting individual, household and community characteristics relevant to COVID-19 and planning an equitable response: a cross-sectional analysis | journal = BMJ Open | volume = 10 | issue = 9 | pages = e039886 | date = September 2020 | pmid = 32873684 | pmc = 7467554 | doi = 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039886 }}</ref> regions, countries,<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal || vauthors = Elgar FJ, Stefaniak A, Wohl MJ | title = The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of social capital, income inequality, and COVID-19 deaths in 84 countries | journal = Social Science & Medicine | volume = 263 | pages = 113365 | date = October 2020 | pmid = 32981770 | pmc = 7492158 | doi = 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113365 }}</ref> and continents have also drawn attention in academia and the general public.