Respecting Disability Rights — Toward Improved Crisis Standards of Care
Document Type
Article
Year
2020
Citation Information
Govind Persad, Govind Persad, and Douglas B. White, Respecting Disability Rights — Toward Improved Crisis Standards of Care, (2020), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/2028.
Abstract
In times of emergency, many legal strictures can flex. For example, to enable hospitals to respond to Covid-19, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently waived a swath of federal regulatory requirements. But though officials’ emergency powers are extensive, the ability to discard antidiscrimination protections is not among them. A hallmark of our legal system is that our commitment to prohibiting invidious discrimination remains steadfast even in times of emergency.
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