In a time of shortage of skilled staff, protective gear, ICU beds, respirators, dialysis, drugs,
and others,'triage'—a French word used mostly in wartime—aims at favoring the most likely …

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Italy, many hospitals are overwhelmed with
patients, necessitating difficult triage decisions that can seem like choosing who lives and …

A public health emergency, as the COVID-19 pandemic, may lead to shortages of potentially
life-saving treatments. In this situation, it is necessary, justifiable and proportionate to have …

Killing someone directly is never morally right, but sometimes, choosing someone to save
and leaving another to die is. The moral philosophy, law, and medical ethics have all …

COVID-19—classified as a pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020—is expected to put
tremendous strain on many healthcare systems. Early epidemiological analyses show that …

As the COVID-19 pandemic initially unfolded in early 2020, medical systems were rapidly
overwhelmed with critically ill patients. Intensive care resources were strained and, in some …

The allocation of scarce medical resources during the COVID-19 pandemic will present
healthcare providers and clinicians with a host of difficult bioethical and human rights …

Abstract On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization classified COVID‐19, caused by
Sars‐CoV‐2, as a pandemic. Although not much was known about the new virus, the first …

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has caused shortages of life-sustaining medical
resources, and future waves of the virus may cause further scarcity. The Yale New Haven …

The novel COVID-19 pandemic has placed medical triage decision-making in the spotlight.
As life-saving ventilators become scarce, clinicians are being forced to allocate scarce …