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The COVID-19 Pandemic: Critical Care Allocated in Extremis

Name / volume / issue

78418

Page number

6-8

Primary author

Susan Dorr Goold

Tag(s): Journal article

Abstract

Professor McCullough, a distinguished scholar in bioethics and the history of bioethics, wisely exhorts us to learn from past experience as we confront the COVID-19 pandemic (McCullough 2020). We should not rush to develop brand new criteria for allocating scarce resources in intensive care units (ICUs), says McCullough, but should instead rely on what we have learned over many years. […]

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