The Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic presented a host of moral dilemmas. Many of these involve issues of "distributive ju

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The Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic presented a host of moral
dilemmas. Many of these involve issues of "distributive justice",
specifically how to allocate (or distribute) vital resources when
there are not enough to go around. For example, early on there were
concerns that hospitals would run out of IC units (including
ventilators) and personnel to treat all the Covid patients (and
many hospitals were stretched beyond capacity). Later the issue of
prioritizing who would get the vaccine first became another
distribution issue.
Let's focus on one specific and extreme distribution issue which
doctors in Italy faced and which US doctors feared they would face.
Say,
you are a doctor with only one ventilator available to you
and more than one patient has a critical need for it (they will die
without it). Who do you give the ventilator too? How do you
decide?
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