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The COVID-19 virus is severely testing the Italian healthcare system, as the requests for intensive treatment are greater than the real capacity of the system to receive patients. Given this emergency situation, it follows that citizens are limited in their freedom of movement in order to limit infection, and that in hospitals a significant number of critical situations must be faced. This brief contribution aims to offer a reflection on the public and clinical role of the bioethicist: a figure able to promote dialogue between the world of medicine and the community, and to face ethical dilemmas even in emergent clinical settings.

eLife
Volume 9, 2020

Weissgerber, T.; Bediako, Y.; de Winde, C. M.; Ebrahimi, H.; Fernandez-Chiappe, F.; Ilangovan, V.; Mehta, D.; Paz Quezada, C.; Riley, J. L.; Saladi, S. M.; Sarabipour, S.; Tay, A.

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The need to protect public health during the current COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated conference cancellations on an unprecedented scale. As the scientific community adapts to new working conditions, it is important to recognize that some of our actions may disproportionately affect early-career researchers and scientists from countries with limited research funding. We encourage all conference organizers, funders and institutions who are able to do so to consider how they can mitigate the unintended consequences of conference and travel cancellations and we provide seven recommendations for how this could be achieved. The proposed solutions may also offer long-term benefits for those who normally cannot attend conferences, and thus lead to a more equitable future for generations of researchers.

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Epidemiology; Ethics, social science, economics

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Nicoli, F., Gasparetto, A.

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Weissgerber, T.; Bediako, Y.; de Winde, C. M.; Ebrahimi, H.; Fernandez-Chiappe, F.; Ilangovan, V.; Mehta, D.; Paz Quezada, C.; Riley, J. L.; Saladi, S. M.; Sarabipour, S.; Tay, A.

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