Letter to the Editor

Physician Duties and Responsibilities in Pandemics

Authors: G. Richard Holt, MD, MSE MPH, MABE, DBioethics

Abstract

To the Editor: In early February 2020, the World Health Organization declared the 2019 novel coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV) to be nearing a global pandemic. Not since the outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) of 2002–2003 and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) of 2015 have population concerns and medical attention been so keen. The World Health Organization Director-General warned that the world may be dangerously unprepared for this coronavirus pandemic.1
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