Disability, Vulverability, and COVID-19

Authors

Dominic Sisti

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Publication Date

10-27-2020

Keywords

ethics, scarcity of resources, triage protocols, disabilities, covid-19

Disciplines

Bioethics and Medical Ethics | Infectious Disease

Abstract

Dr. Sisti discusses how considerations about intellectual, mental, and physical disabilities have entered into conversations around scoring for scarce resources and triage protocols. He explores how risk mitigation approaches and public health guidelines are possibly based on ableist calculations of risk and benefit, and have harmed individuals with serious mental illness and their families.

Specialty/Research Institute

Biomedical Ethics

Specialty/Research Institute

Infectious Diseases

Comments

Curtis R. Holzgang, M.D., MACP Visiting Scholar