Covid-19 creating chaos on many fronts
WITH the global death toll now more than 360,000 and still rising, the Covid-19 pandemic is creating health, ethical, social, business, economic and political chaos.As of today, there have been 5.8 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, including 360,000 deaths.
However, older people, and those with underlying medical problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness. Once patients develop severe complications heart, renal, or multiple organ failure, this will result in death. All these may ultimately result in patients and victims of Covid-19 and their families, front-liners, businesses, workers and some of the public being confronted by not only health but also mental health issuesAs Covid-19 cases and death surge, hospitals are confronting severe scarcity of vital medical resources including PPE, intensive care units beds and ventilators, bringing into tension two important forms of medical ethics: public health ethics and clinical ethics.
Travel restrictions and the closing of borders by nations to prevent influx of tourists have resulted in the airlines, tourism and hospitality sector emerging as the hardest-hit sectors.
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