CCBI Resources for COVID-19 Matters – May 6, 2020
There seems to be a lessening of tension as many of us in Canada are…
CCBI Resources for COVID-19 Matters – April 3rd, 2020
Over the next few weeks and months, we will supply links to information concerning COVID-19 from various sources, as well as from CCBI, that may be of use to you.
Information from the Vatican will be our first priority, relating to our Catholic sensibilities, but there are many valuable and trustworthy resources concerning moral, pastoral and spiritual material that could also benefit us all.
Our Lady, Health of the Sick, pray for us!
Moira McQueen, LLB, MDiv, PhD
Executive Director, Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute
Lecturer, Faculty of Theology
The Pontifical Academy for Life:
GLOBAL PANDEMIC AND UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD
Note on the Covid-19 emergency
The New Atlantis
I’m Young and Healthy. If I Get Coronavirus, Will I Be Fine? – The New Atlantis
I’m Young and Healthy. If I Get Coronavirus, Will I Be Fine? Brendan Foht, Samuel Matlack, Ari Schulman. Covid-19’s low death rate conceals bigger dangers. I ’m young and healthy — I don’t want my grandparents to die, but if I get it, I’ll be fine.” You may have heard friends and family members say this recently, based on reports that Covid-19 mostly kills the elderly and sick.
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/im-young-and-healthy-if-i-get-coronavirus-will-i-be-fine
The Hastings Center, The Hastings Center Report
Responding to COVID‐19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and Ethically
Lawrence O. Gostin, Eric A. Friedman, Sarah A. Wetter
First published: 26 March 2020
https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.1090
Few novel or emerging infectious diseases have posed such vital ethical challenges so quickly and dramatically as the novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2. The World Health Organization declared a public hea…https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.1090