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The current pandemic is challenging our society in unprecedented ways. At least in recent history, there is no experience with similar health hazards. Nor is there a precedent for the current rigorous, sweeping and nationwide government measures that restrict civil liberties. They aim to prevent an exponential increase in the number of infected and sick people. Without them, the healthcare system could soon reach saturation point. A rapid increase in the number of seriously ill patients might lead to an undersupply of medical care for people in need of treatment – regardless of whether they suffer from the lung disease, Covid-19, caused by the novel coronavirus or from any other disease. Nonetheless, even the measures adopted so far have inevitable economic and psychosocial side effects, including negative repercussions for the health situation of particularly vulnerable groups.
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