1 Ethics and SARS: Learning Lessons from the Toronto Experience Ross E.G Upshur, MD, MSc, MA, FRCPC Joint Centre for Bioethics Sunnybrook and Women’s College.

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1 Ethics and SARS: Learning Lessons from the Toronto Experience Ross E.G Upshur, MD, MSc, MA, FRCPC Joint Centre for Bioethics Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Science Centre

2 Joint Centre for Bioethics SARS Working Group Solomon R. Benatar Mark Bernstein Abdallah S. Daar Bernard Dickens Sue MacRae Peter A. Singer Ross Upshur Linda Wright Randi Zlotnik Shaul

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4 SARS: Choices on Fundamentals individual freedoms vs good of society fear for personal safety vs duty to treat the sick economic loss vs need to contain spread of deadly disease. need to learn lessons prepare for spread of SARS & other epidemics.

5 SARS: Hard Choices who: medical and public health communities, citizens, federal, provincial and local governments with: limited information and short deadlines and: health care providers were on the firing line, and were the most infected of any group.

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7 Basis for Choices scientific analyses value systems. ethical issues for which we were not fully prepared.

8 SARS: Key Ethical Issues 1. When public health trumps civil liberties: the ethics of quarantine 2. Naming names, naming communities: privacy of personal information and public need to know 3. Health care workers’ duty to care, and the duty of institutions to support them 4. Collateral damage: other victims of SARS 5. SARS in a globalized world

9 1. When public health trumps civil liberties the ethics of quarantine

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11 Quarantine: Case “ Michel ” is in quarantine because a family member has contracted SARS, and he may have been infected. A close family friend has died from causes not associated with the SARS epidemic, and Michel is torn between wanting to attend the funeral and his duty to respect the quarantine order.

12 Quarantine: Ethical Values individual liberty protection of public from harm proportionality –protect from needless coercion –restrictions: legal, legitimate, necessary –least restrictive, applied fairly –applied by those with legitimate authority reciprocity: adequate care transparency

13 Quarantine: Lessons Learned At times, interests of protecting public health override some individual rights, such as freedom of movement. At such times, society has a duty to: – inform people of the situation –explain the reasons –do as much as possible to assist people whose rights are being infringed.

14 2. Naming names, communities privacy of personal information and public need to know

15 “ June ” RN feels unwell, temp normal weighs risks of having SARS against costs of losing pay if she stays home worries re extra takes GO train fear she may have infected others on train not named publicly: not diagnosed SARS Public Need to Know: Case

16 Public Need to Know: Case Kwan Sui-chu, 78, accidentally brought SARS to Toronto passed SARS to her family identified publicly

17 Public Need to Know: Ethical Values people have right to control personal information health authorities bound to protect confidentiality right to privacy not absolute

18 Public Need to Know: Ethical Values protection of public health may limit person’s right to privacy proportionality: intrusiveness justified transparency: honest reporting

19 Public Need to Know: Lessons Learned Public Need to Know: Lessons Learned the state has the right to override the individual’s right to privacy in cases of serious public health risks, when revealing private medical information would help protect public health privacy and confidentiality of individuals should be protected unless a well-defined public health goal can be achieved by the release of this information to the general public privacy and confidentiality of individuals should be protected unless a well-defined public health goal can be achieved by the release of this information to the general public

20 3.The Duty to Care Health care workers ’ duty to care, and the duty of institutions to support them

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22 Duty to Care: Case Mary, ICU nurse, is afraid she will have to care for SARS patients and may become infected. Her husband asks her to call in sick, citing her duty as the mother of 3 small children not to risk giving them SARS. Mary feels torn between protecting her children & commitment to her profession. The hospital values good attendance. By calling in sick, Mary loses $ & feels she is not supporting her colleagues on the front lines.

23 Duty to Care: Ethical Values duty to care –virtue ethics –beneficence reciprocity –society, institutions –necessary supports –no penalization –transparency

24 Duty to Care: Lessons Learned health care professionals have a duty to care for –the sick –themselves in order to care for the ill duty not to harm others by communicating diseases. limit to personal risk is unclear

25 Duty to Care: Lessons Learned institutions have a reciprocal duty to support and protect health care workers, and to help them cope with very stressful situations need for clear expectations of employees reward, not penalization for following safe practices recognition of heroism by the public & institutions

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27 4. Collateral Damage other victims of SARS

28 Collateral Damage: Case Debbie, 28, needs surgery for breast cancer Surgery cancelled during SARS emergency Debbie & family’s anxiety increases fearing spread of cancer

29 Collateral Damage: Ethical Values equity between SARS & non-SARS pts –weigh risks & benefits fairness –access to limited resources

30 Collateral Damage: Lessons Learned Collateral Damage: Lessons Learned important to control spread of disease, but we must pay as much attention to the rights of non- infected pts needing urgent medical care need accountability for making reasonable decisions, transparency & fairness need to communicate accurate information to the public, including risks & benefits of strategies & decisions

31 5. SARS in a Globalized World: Case 5. SARS in a Globalized World: Case In Guangdong province, rural China, it is early winter and “ Mr. Li, ” a farmer, comes down with a severe respiratory infection. His son leaves for Beijing, carrying the SARS microbe and its descendants on a journey that will span the world. One of its major destinations is Toronto, where thousands will be forced into quarantine to stop the spread of SARS.

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33 5. SARS in a Globalized World: Case WHO office, Geneva, issues travel advisory warning people not to go to Toronto unless necessary, to minimize risk that Toronto could export the disease to countries unequipped to handle it. One week later, WHO lifts the travel warning, saying the magnitude of the problem in Toronto had decreased, and there was no evidence that the city was exporting SARS cases.

34 5. SARS in a Globalized World: Case In a number of institutions, scientists race to break the genetic code of the SARS virus, and then to patent it. How the patents are exercised could have global implications for who can access such results as vaccines.

35 SARS in a Globalized World: Ethical Values Solidarity raises challenges: –interconnections between globalization & health –reduce global disparities in health –common goals between those with different levels of power, health, wealth

36 SARS in a Globalized World: Lessons Learned SARS is a wakeup call about global interdependence, and the increasingly rapid spread of diseases. health is a global, public good there is a need to strengthen the global health system to cope with infectious diseases in the interests of everyone, including people in the richer nations. will require global solidarity and cooperation in the interest of everyone ’ s health.

37 11 Key Ethical Values Protection of the public from harm Privacy Individual liberty Protection of communities from undue stigmatization Citizen responsibility Duty to provide care ReciprocityEquityTransparencyInterdependenceProportionality

38 Dedication Healthcare Professionals in Toronto who were affected by contracting SARS, losing loved ones and working under extraordinary conditions