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In this essay, the author revisits Thucydides's description of the Plague of Athens from<\/jats:italic> The Peloponnesian War <jats:italic>as he considers the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law's 2015 guidelines on ventilator allocation. Confronted by the exigencies of the Covid\u201019 surge that struck New York, he questions the task force's decision not to give any degree of preference to health care workers who might become ill. He posits that they are due a compensatory ethic and some deference given the risks they have assumed, often with inadequate protective gear. Reflecting on his ambivalence, he asks if his change of heart reflects the impact of experiential learning or the erosion of<\/jats:italic> nomos\u2014<jats:italic>or governing norms\u2014described by Thucydides when the plague struck Athens<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/hast.1132","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,29]],"date-time":"2020-06-29T08:14:09Z","timestamp":1593418449000},"page":"50-53","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Pandemics, Protocols, and the Plague of Athens: Insights from Thucydides"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"50","author":[{"given":"Joseph J.","family":"Fins","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_5_1_1","unstructured":"New York State Department of Health New York State Task Force on Life and the Law Ventilator Allocation Guidelines November 2015 https:\/\/www.health.ny.gov\/regulations\/task_force\/reports_publications\/docs\/ventilator_guidelines.pdf."},{"key":"e_1_2_5_2_1","unstructured":"J. J.Fins \u201cWhen Endemic Disparities Catch the Pandemic Flu: Echoes of Kubler\u2010Ross and Rawls \u201dHastings Bioethics Forum(blog) April 30 2009 https:\/\/www.thehastingscenter.org\/when-endemic-disparities-catch-the-pandemic-flu\/."},{"key":"e_1_2_5_3_1","volume-title":"Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response","author":"Committee on Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations, Institute of Medicine","year":"2012"},{"key":"e_1_2_5_4_1","unstructured":"J. J.Fins \u201cDisabusing the Disability Critique of the New York State Task Force on Ventilator Allocation \u201dHastings Bioethics Forum(blog) April 1 2020 https:\/\/www.thehastingscenter.org\/disabusing-the-disability-critique-of-the-new-york-state-task-force-report-on-ventilator-allocation\/; J. J. 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