Ethical Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Japanese Perspective.
J Med Internet Res
; 25: e44820, 2023 01 26.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2231997
ABSTRACT
This article focuses on how Japan experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. It delineates the various challenges the country faced and the measures the national government took to stop the spread of the infection. The article begins with the author's personal experience of COVID-19. The second section explains how the Japanese government lacked the legal sanctions to enforce a state of emergency. The third section deals with the current pandemic response as characterized by the increased use of digital technologies to control the spread of the virus. I argue that the lack of effective governance hampered Japan's timely use of digital technologies. The fourth section will touch on the issues created by the rapid spread of the infection and an increase in the hospitalization rate, focusing on intensive care unit triage and the ethical debates that ensued in Japan. The fifth section discusses the pandemic from the perspective of disaster preparedness and management, exploring the ways the pandemic responses share ethical challenges with responses to other disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pandemics
/
COVID-19
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
J Med Internet Res
Journal subject:
Medical Informatics
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
44820
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