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Scarce Resources in a Pandemic: Intensive Care in times of COVID-19

Back in 2009 I reported on a Hastings Center publication entitled When Endemic Disparities Catch the Pandemic Flu: Echoes of Kubler-Ross and Rawls in which the author recounts experiences of participating in panels considering the clinical and ethical challenges posed by pandemic flu. Within the context of this series on COVID-19 the report makes interesting ... Scarce Resources in a Pandemic: Intensive Care in times of COVID-19

Jonathan Hankins

02/04
2020 5mn
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In dialogo con ‘On policy choices by european countries during the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak’.

The reason we don’t live in a dungeon is because people have joined together to change things Noam Chomsky I moderni insegnano che le tragedie non sono semplici cattive notizie. Non sono soltanto brutti eventi, fatti dolorosi. La tragedia lacera, squarcia. Allora è tale: quando si è di fronte a due valori che si ritengono ... In dialogo con ‘On policy choices by european countries during the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak’.

Gabriele Giacomini

18/03
2020 7mn
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In Response to ‘On policy choices by european countries during the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak’.

In his article ON POLICY CHOICES BY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DURING THE 2020 COVID-19 OUTBREAK, Maurizio Bettiga proposes two opposing and contrasting (possible) policy justifications for the action taken to limit the spread of the Corona Virus across Europe: 1. fight the spread of the infection at all cost and prioritize every patient life over everything ... In Response to ‘On policy choices by european countries during the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak’.

Jonathan Hankins

17/03
2020 7mn
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ON POLICY CHOICES BY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DURING THE 2020 COVID-19 OUTBREAK.

On March 11th, 2020, The World Health Organisation (WHO) has characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic. In its statement regarding this assessment, WHO has also clearly expressed its position regarding the fact that this is likely the very first pandemic that can be potentially controlled and, notwithstanding this, a number of countries in the World do ... ON POLICY CHOICES BY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DURING THE 2020 COVID-19 OUTBREAK.

Maurizio Bettiga

15/03
2020 4mn
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What do epidemiologists do? Investigating a controversial symptomatology in Colombia

From May 2014 onwards the community of El Carmen de Bolivar, a municipality on the Caribbean Coast of Colombia, was hit by a mysterious outbreak with a very specific target: female teenagers. The symptoms, that from their first manifestation affected a growing numbers of girls, were general weakness, fainting, headaches, tachycardia, numbness in the extremities, ... What do epidemiologists do? Investigating a controversial symptomatology in Colombia

Maurizia Mezza

05/11
2019 13mn
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