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Cherishing our Elderly and COVID Rationing

Ann Mongoven, associate director of Healthcare Ethics, published in Bioethics.Net.

In this editorial published on Bioethics.Net, Associate Director of Healthcare Ethics Ann Mongoven argues that we should cherish our elderly by flattening the epidemic curve, not by refusing to consider age as a relevant ethical factor in allocating scarce intensive-care resources during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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