Fair Coronavirus Triage Guidelines—Not Business as Usual—Will Save More Patients with Disabilities from Covid-19

Authors

Govind PersadFollow
Govind C. Persad, University of DenverFollow

Document Type

Article

Year

2020

Citation Information

Govind Persad and Govind C. Persad, Fair Coronavirus Triage Guidelines—Not Business as Usual—Will Save More Patients with Disabilities from Covid-19, (2020), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/2046.

Abstract

As cases of severe COVID-19 illness spike across America, it is increasingly evident that demand for vital resources, like ventilators and ICU beds, will soon outstrip supply. Some patients who desperately need potentially life-saving interventions will not get them. Life-or-death decisions will have to be made.