The Covid-19 pandemic has brought bioethics back to five topics-justice, autonomy, expert authority, religion, and judicial decisions-that were central during its formative period but has cast a new light on each, while also tangling public health policy in the current, rather radical, reshaping of the role of organized religion in society.
Keywords: Covid-19 pandemic; Supreme Court; bioethics; free exercise clause; public health; strict scrutiny.
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