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 …

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 …

SPECIAL REPORT Ethics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic 467 in Lisbon in 1981),
the following statement can be found:“In circumstances where a choice must be made …

We report here an emerging dispute in Italy concerning triage criteria for critically ill covid-19
patients, and how best to support doctors having to make difficult decisions in a context of …

After initially emerging in China, the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has advanced
rapidly. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared it a pandemic, with …

Facing Covid-19 in Italy Physicians in northern Italy have learned some painful lessons
about rationing care during an epidemic. As health care systems work out ethical allocation …

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 …

Some ethicists assert that there is a consensus that maximising medical outcomes takes
precedence as a principle of resource allocation in emergency triage of absolutely scarce …

The respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is a pandemic
that produces a large number of simultaneous patients with severe symptoms and in need of …

In this paper, we analyse the most important documents establishing the criteria for the
treatment and exclusion of COVID-19 patients, especially in regard to the giving of …