Scarcity Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate: Age and Disability in Health Care Rationing
The Colombian case reinforces that human rights and public health are not mutually exclusive.
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Read more: The Import of the UNCRPD and Disability Justice for Pandemic Preparedness and Response The Import of the UNCRPD and Disability Justice for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
This commentary outlines three of the more important considerations for international pandemic lawmaking with respect to people with disabilities.
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Read more: Ethical and Legal Challenges Faced by Hospitals in New York’s First COVID-19 Surge Ethical and Legal Challenges Faced by Hospitals in New York’s First COVID-19 Surge
Supporting doctors and health care workers during times of crisis requires making concrete plans in advance for the worst case scenarios.
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Read more: Balancing Health Care Rationing and Disability Rights in a Pandemic Balancing Health Care Rationing and Disability Rights in a Pandemic
Amid the present surge of the coronavirus pandemic, it is crucial that disability rights are a factor in the development of triage protocols.
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Read more: Arizona’s Crisis Standards of Care and Fair Allocation of Resources During COVID-19 Arizona’s Crisis Standards of Care and Fair Allocation of Resources During COVID-19
Arizona has done the right thing by adopting crisis standards of care instead of leaving these decisions about ventilators to be made ad hoc.
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Read more: The Disparate Impact of COVID-19 on Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities The Disparate Impact of COVID-19 on Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
It is clear that responses to the pandemic—with respect to more basic resources than ventilators—has been uneven, particularly for the most vulnerable.
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Read more: Disability and Rationing of Care amid COVID-19 Disability and Rationing of Care amid COVID-19
Most physicians and bioethicists involved in establishing rationing of care guidelines have not claimed disability status. This needs to change.
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Read more: How Triage During COVID-19 Can be Fair to Patients with Disabilities How Triage During COVID-19 Can be Fair to Patients with Disabilities
Triage policies that use medical evidence to save more lives are legal, ethical, and better for patients with disabilities than other approaches.