Write an essay in which you analyze three ethical dilemmas associated with the coronavirus pandemic. For the purpose of this essay, the coronavirus pandemic will be accepted as a genuine global health emergency. If you use any outside sources, be sure to put the information in your own words and provide documentation.
Your analysis must use one of these ethical approaches: utilitarianism, deontology, virtue-based, rights and justice, postmodernism, feminist, or religious (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism). In the essay, summarize the approach you are using, use that approach for each of the questions, clearly explain your reasoning, and be consistent in your analysis. Provide an ethical determination for each of the dilemmas. I will expect you to refer to the textbook, and to give correct citations of it.
1) There are an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. They are not eligible for Medicaid and do not have health insurance provided by their employers. At the same time, left untreated, the immigrants become ill and spread the coronavirus disease.
1. Should the U.S. government pay the health care bills related to the coronavirus for all undocumented immigrants in the U.S., as part of its efforts to stop the pandemic?
2. Should the U.S. promise not to ask for their status as immigrants, in order to encourage all undocumented people to seek treatment?
3. Do Americans have an ethical responsibility to people who are not citizens of America?
2) Some people in NC rebelled against orders to wear masks in public. About five hours after the state’s mandatory face mask order went into effect, nearly 100 protestors gathered in front of the state legislature to protest against what they referred to as “tyranny.” One leader of the group said, ““We can’t give them one inch of our freedom.”
1. Is mandating the use of face masks in public, during a pandemic, an unconstitutional infringement on personal freedom?
2. What takes ethical precedence: individual rights or social accountability?
3) Three patients — a 10 year-old boy with diabetes, a 25 year-old mother of two, and a 75 year-old grandfather — are crammed into a hospital triage tent and struggling to breathe. Only one ventilator is left. Without the ventilator, the patients are almost certain to die. Who should get it?
1. Should the ventilator be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis? If not, what should be the criteria? Are some people in society more important than others?
2. Should a patient with a limited chance of survival be taken off a ventilator to give it to another with better odds?
3. If a doctor, nurse, or first responder becomes critically ill, should they automatically be jumped ahead of the child, mother, and grandfather?
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