COVID-19 pandemic.A moral injury involves injury to a person’s moral conscience and can happen when someone sees or does something, or fails to prevent something, that conflicts with their morals.
As a result, people are often left with profound guilt and shame. COVID-19 anti-vax protests causing ‘moral injury’ to hospital workers Researchers argue that some health-care workers have experienced situations amid the pandemic that could have resulted in moral injury.“Those suffering from moral injury have a cognitive or thinking component which may include repeated thoughts that they didn’t provide the best care for, example, or that they let their family down do to their intense work schedule or need to self-isolate,” explains Dr.