Over the next few weeks and months, we will supply links to information concerning COVID-19 from various sources, as well as from CCBI, that may be of use to you.

Information from the Vatican will be our first priority, relating to our Catholic sensibilities, but there are many valuable and trustworthy resources concerning moral, pastoral and spiritual  material that could also benefit us all.

Our Lady, Health of the Sick, pray for us!

Moira McQueen, LLB, MDiv, PhD
Executive Director, Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute
Lecturer, Faculty of Theology


The Pontifical Academy for Life:

GLOBAL PANDEMIC AND UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD

Note on the Covid-19 emergency

http://www.academyforlife.va/content/dam/pav/documenti%20pdf/2020/Nota%20Covid19/Note%20on%20the%20Covid-19%20emergency_ENG_.pdf

The New Atlantis

I’m Young and Healthy. If I Get Coronavirus, Will I Be Fine? – The New Atlantis

I’m Young and Healthy. If I Get Coronavirus, Will I Be Fine? Brendan Foht, Samuel Matlack, Ari Schulman. Covid-19’s low death rate conceals bigger dangers. I ’m young and healthy — I don’t want my grandparents to die, but if I get it, I’ll be fine.” You may have heard friends and family members say this recently, based on reports that Covid-19 mostly kills the elderly and sick.

www.thenewatlantis.com

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/im-young-and-healthy-if-i-get-coronavirus-will-i-be-fine

The Hastings Center, The Hastings Center Report

Responding to COVID‐19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and Ethically

Lawrence O. Gostin, Eric A. Friedman, Sarah A. Wetter

First published: 26 March 2020

https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.1090

Responding to COVID‐19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and Ethically – GOSTIN – – Hastings Center Report – Wiley Online Library

Few novel or emerging infectious diseases have posed such vital ethical challenges so quickly and dramatically as the novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2. The World Health Organization declared a public hea…https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.1090