COVID-19 and the Ethics of Scarce Resources

Description

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented strains on health systems around the world, most critically shortages in life-saving medical equipment, ICU and hospital beds, and blood products, as well as protective equipment for first responders and frontline health care workers. These shortages have resulted in the need for triage decisions previously experienced in developed countries only during wartime and raised daunting ethical challenges.

As part of "SNF Agora Conversations: The Politics and Policy of COVID-19," please join in a discussion of the ethics of scarce resource allocation, public input on how to prioritize members of communities, and the nearly real-time work being carried out in hospitals across the U.S. and the globe to create ethically acceptable allocation frameworks and implementation plans for deciding, quite literally, who will live and who will die.

Panelists:

• Ruth R. Faden, founder of the Berman Institute of Bioethics and professor of biomedical ethics at Johns Hopkins University
• Allen Kachalia, senior vice president for patient safety and quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Jeff Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics (moderator)

Please attend the event by joining the webcast.