Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of COVID-19

Paper by Ezekiel Emanuel, Govind Persad, Ross Upshur, et al. The New England Journal of Medicine. March 23, 2020.

Paper by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Govind Persad, Ross Upshur, Beatriz Thome, Michael Parker, Aaron Glickman, Cathy Zhang, Connor Boyle, Maxwell Smith, and James Phillips. The New England Journal of Medicine.

March 23, 2020.

The rapidly growing imbalance between supply and demand for medical resources in many countries presents an inherently normative question: How can medical resources be allocated fairly during a Covid-19 pandemic?

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