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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant public attention to important ethical concepts: resource allocation of medical devices, therapeutics, vaccines, and labor; disparities and racial justice in the context of differences in infection, hospitalization, mortality, and vaccination; caregiver well-being; financial vulnerability of delivery organizations; and the balance between personal liberty and the common good. Moving forward, the ethical concerns raised through the pandemic provide a unique opportunity to incorporate ethical reasoning into postpandemic coursework on a more regular basis. Many of the underlying concepts made more prominent by the pandemic were already present but were either granted little attention in curricula or were not seen as relevant concerns by students. This essay offers strategies to assure that the ethical concerns made more visible since early 2020 do not disappear once the pandemic has subsided. It does so by describing some of the ethical dilemmas experienced during the pandemic, identifying the ethical concepts central to those dilemmas, and applying those concepts to dilemmas students will face in their professional lives apart from the pandemic.

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