Instructional Objectives for this activity: Examine the ethical issues and lessons to be learned from the SARS outbreak. Every catastrophic event offers "lessons learned" that can be used to develop...

Catastrophic Event Response Planning – WEEK 12 Class Discussion Note You must not copy and paste information. Do not copy or paste information / Please ……. (In your own words, referencing) Just make sure to cite the source in-text or use your own word, and paraphrase it. Only 150 words  Only 15o words Instructional Objectives for this activity: Examine the ethical issues and lessons to be learned from the SARS outbreak.Every catastrophic event offers "lessons learned" that can be used to develop better planning for future events. Chapter 10 explores the ethical issues breached by the SARS outbreak in 2003. Please respond to all of the following prompts: Page 408 of your text contains the "lessons learned" from the SARS outbreak. Pick one of the ethical issues involved in the SARS outbreak and detail how this ethical value was compromised. What consequence did this decision have on the SARS outbreak?  The SARS Outbreak of 2003 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a total of 8,098 people worldwide became sick with SARS during the 2003 outbreak. Of these, 774 died. In the United States, only eight people had laboratory evidence of SARS-CoV infection. All of these people had traveled to other parts of the world having cases of SARS (CDC, 2003). The SARS outbreak posed a number of ethical challenges. Decision makers were required to balance individual freedoms against the common god, fear for personal safety against the duty to treat the sick, and economic losses against the need to contain the spread of a deadly disease. Decisions were often made with limited information and under short deadlines. A working group of University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics under- took to draw the ethical lessons from the challenges of and responses to SARS in Toronto. The working group identified five general categories of ethical issues arising from the SARS experience: Public health versus civil liberties: there are times when the interests...