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cord-271582-xo2a4wnj	Chew, Christopher	Medical ethics in the era of COVID‐19: Now and the future	2020-08-05		.txt	text/plain	1167	64	47	Instead, as the pandemic ravaged developed nations in the early months of the pandemic, COVID-19 exposed conflicted political leadership, limited vital medical supplies including personal protective equipment (PPE) and under-funded public health system capacity. Similarly, COVID-19 has forced healthcare workers in developed countries to confront moral dilemmas that have received limited attention from policymakers, clinicians and ethicists until now, but are part of daily life for their counterparts in resource-poor nations. Public health ethics has seen renewed relevance, including highly charged debates about the provision of PPE and whether healthcare workers have a 'duty to treat'. One struggle emerging at the clinical coalface is preserving the vital relationship between patients and healthcare providers despite unprecedented change in medical systems and delivery of care. Clinical ethics recommend ations for the allocation of intensive care treatments in exceptional, resource-limited circumstances: the Italian perspective during the COVID-19 epidemic	./cache/cord-271582-xo2a4wnj.txt	./txt/cord-271582-xo2a4wnj.txt