How Triage During COVID-19 Can be Fair to Patients with Disabilities
Document Type
Article
Year
2020
Citation Information
Govind Persad, How Triage During COVID-19 Can be Fair to Patients with Disabilities, (2020), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/2011.
Abstract
On March 28, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance regarding the application of antidiscrimination law to triage policies — that is, policies for fairly allocating scarce medical treatments, like ventilators, in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many news outlets incorrectly portrayed HHS as prohibiting triage guidelines from considering disability. But the guidance is more nuanced.
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