This issue opens with a viewpoint from Mary A. Ott and colleagues–all clinicians at the Indiana University School of Medicine–in which they examine the current and potentially long‐term consequences of the U.S. public health response to the coronavirus pandemic (page 145). As frontline providers, the authors off er a clinician's perspective on how the impact of pandemic‐related barriers to health care has been exacerbated by targeted policies designed to limit individuals' ability to obtain sexual and reproductive health services. They address a number of critical questions, among them: What is essential care? Which restrictions can be relaxed safely, and when? The viewpoint explores these issues through the lens of both human rights and the harm principle, and calls on providers, policymakers and advocates to ensure that underserved populations have access to needed services and that “the ethical frameworks necessary to make just and equitable decisions about balancing individual human rights and public health” are put in place.

玛丽·A·奥特（Mary A. Ott）及其同事（印第安纳大学医学院的所有临床医生）的观点从这个问题开始，他们研究了美国公共卫生应对冠状病毒大流行的当前和潜在的长期后果（第145页） 。作为一线服务提供者，作者提供了临床医生的观点，即旨在限制个人获得性健康和生殖健康服务能力的针对性政策如何加剧了与大流行相关的卫生保健障碍的影响。他们解决了许多关键问题，其中包括：什么是基本护理？哪些限制可以安全放宽？何时放宽？该观点从人权和伤害原则的角度探讨了这些问题，并呼吁提供者，