Bioethical principles and values during pandemics.

INTRODUCTION The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the greatest threat to public health today. The disease arose at a time when it was widely believed that humankind had only one last frontier to conquer in public health—to master techniques for the definitive treatment of genetic and hereditary diseases, as well as neoplasms and degenerative diseases. The emergence of a new infectious disease, caused by a virus previously believed to be harmless to human beings, generated a global crisis and [...]