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Conceptual Issues in COVID-19 Pandemic: An Example of Global Catastrophic Risk
A Response to: The Traditional Definition of Pandemics, Its Moral Conflations, and Its Practical Implications: A Defense of Conceptual Clarity in Global Health Laws and Policies by T. De Campos, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (CQ 29(2))
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 December 2020
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