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We can afford to do both quite well,\u201d says bioethicist George Annas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/10\/17\/october-17-2014-ethics-ebola\/24412\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":24414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[1169,3901,1320,982,1322],"class_list":["post-24412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-disease","tag-epidemic","tag-health-care","tag-medicine","tag-rationing","topics-ethics","topics-health-and-medicine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>October 17, 2014 ~ Ethics and Ebola | October 17, 2014 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Telling the truth may be the most important ethical principle at stake in a threatened epidemic.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/10\/17\/october-17-2014-ethics-ebola\/24412\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"October 17, 2014 ~ Ethics and Ebola | October 17, 2014 | Religion &amp; 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