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Ethical and Legal Challenges Posed by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Implications for the Control of Severe Infectious Disease Threats

2006· book-chapter· en· W4388364084 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePublic Health Ethics · 2006
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineDiseaseChinaTuberculosisPandemicEthical issuesInfectious disease (medical specialty)Public healthIntensive care medicineFamily medicinePolitical scienceCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)LawPathology

Abstract

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Abstract Not long after the first reports of what ultimately would be called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) began to appear in February 20031, 2 and as nations and the international community began to confront the spread of the new disease, it became clear that a host of ethical and legal issues had begun to surface. Indeed, not since the first years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the mid-l980s and the alarm over multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the early 1990sdid it seem that so many issues touching on the core ethical questions posed by public health had to be addressed simultaneously. In several respects, SARS took society back to a pretherapeutic era with no definitive diagnostic test, a nonspecific case definition, and no effective vaccine or treatment. From I November 2002, to 1 July 2003, 8,445 cases were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO); among these, 5,327 (63%) were from China, 1,755 (20%) from Hong Kong, 678 (8%) from Taiwan, 252 (3%) from Canada, and 206 (2%) from Singapore. There were 812 deaths. Comparatively, the United States, with 73 cases (0.9%) and no deaths, was spared.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity
Consensus categoriesResearch integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.955
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.156
GPT teacher head0.418
Teacher spread0.261 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it