ABSTRACT
“Mutual assistance” with profound moral significance, is a traditional social moral code and way of life, inherits the essence of ancient philosophers, is gradually regarded as a principle of dealing with neighborhood and social relations, which embodies the organic unity of social value and individual value. Actively carrying forward the ethical idea of “mutual assistance” is of great practical significance for preventing and controlling COVID-1 9, winning the prevention and control war, and promoting the construct ion of community of human health. Therefore, it is necessary to cultivate and practice “mutual assistance” vigorously to strengthen the moral consciousness of ‘iife first”, stimulate individual moral consciousness, and construct socialbenign moralrelations. © 2022, Editorial department of Chinese Medical Ethics. All rights reserved.