COVID-19 Triage and Disability: What NOT To Do

by Joseph Stramondo, PhD Bioethicists and physicians scrambling to develop triage protocols for the COVID-19 crisis might have been surprised that counsel from Self Advocates in Leadership (SAIL), Disability Rights Washington (DRW), and The Arc of the United States (The Arc) filed a complaint recently with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) over their concerns regarding disability discrimination in some of these protocols. Perhaps it is easy to dismiss such concerns as mere naivete that does not recognize the inevitability of the hard choices that are coming down the pike in the United States.…
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