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  • 1 - COVID-19 and Clinical Ethics

  • from Part I - The Health Care System That COVID-19 Encountered
  • Edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts, Abbe R. Gluck, Yale University, Connecticut, Katherine Kraschel, Yale University, Connecticut, Carmel Shachar, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    COVID-19 and the Law
    Published online:
    27 October 2023
    Print publication:
    09 November 2023, pp 17-27
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    Kierkegaard famously said life is lived forward and understood backwards. What is true for life is also true for pandemics and it is tempting to look at the dawning days of COVID-19 through the prism of reflection. But to do so would be to lose the lived experience of those who had to make fraught choices during the initial surge of the pandemic. What happened during March and April 2020 should not be obscured by a post hoc analysis informed by what we learned about the SARS-COV-2 virus or about ourselves since those early days. That early history, unsanitized as it was, is essential to framing subsequent discourse. As an academic physician charged with coordinating a clinical ethics service at a major academic medical center during the spring surge in New York City, I can attest that what happened during the spring of 2020 in New York City bears remembrance, not only to honor those who served – and died – but just as importantly, to inform clinical care and public policy. Those lessons were hard won and it would be unfortunate to lose them through the gauzy haze of memory.