Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»1575Научная статьяETHICS OF INFECTIOUS PATHOLOGY ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICKonoplevaE. Lkonopleva.alenushka@gmail.comSokolovaM. Gmar1164@yandex.ruSmolensk State Medical University18122021412212908042022Copyright © 2021,2021The article is devoted to the ethical understanding of the response of the health system to the global challenge of the pandemic in Russia and abroad. The situation with the coronavirus opens a fundamentally new page in biomedical ethics, significantly changing traditional ideas about the moral norms of doctor-patient interaction, the relationship between personal and collective human rights, factors of medical choice and issues of confidentiality. Special attention is paid to the ethics of medical sorting and the problems of possible discrimination of individual social groups in a pandemic. It is shown that the main ethical lesson of COVID-19 should be the understanding of the importance of priority and even excessive development of the health system. To ensure the high readiness of our country for a repeat of the emergency situation of the pandemic, it is necessary to form a powerful primary health care unit, strengthen human resources, and abandon decentralized market-based management mechanisms in medicine. The characteristic of the ethical views of young people on the problems of ethics to provide medical care to patients with COVID-19. 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