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Conceptual Issues in COVID-19 Pandemic: An Example of Global Catastrophic Risk

A Response to: The Traditional Definition of Pandemics, Its Moral Conflations, and Its Practical Implications: A Defense of Conceptual Clarity in Global Health Laws and Policies by T. De Campos, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (CQ 29(2))

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2020

KONRAD SZOCIK
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 199 - 202
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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