Rationing Care, Ventilators, Life Saving Measures in COVID-19

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Rationing Care, Ventilators, Life Saving Measures in COVID-19

	Here are several resources from the past few days on the issue of rationing care. Put together by Rachel Klein of AIDS Institute. National Action & Media March 17, Tony Coelho, NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/letters/coronavirus-health-rationing.html March 20, CCD letter to OCR: http://c-c-d.org/fichiers/Letter-re-COVID-19-and-Disability-Discrimination-final.pdf March 23, Ari Ne'eman, NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/coronavirus-ventilators-triage-disability.html Marc 23, running list from The Arc with links to many more press stories: https://thearc.org/resource/hhs-ocr-complaint-of-disability-rights-washington-self-advocates-in-leadership-the-arc-of-the-united-states-and-ivanova-smith/ March 24, letter from Rep. Smith to HHS OCR: https://chrissmith.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2020-03-25_bipartisan_bicameral_letter_to_hhs_and_doj_-_covid-19_and_disability_discrimination.pdf March 25, DREDF: https://dredf.org/the-illegality-of-medical-rationing-on-the-basis-of-disability/?mc_cid=349e71dff3&mc_eid=00253c600c States Alabama State plan: http://www.adph.org/CEP/assets/VENTTRIAGE.pdf Complaint: http://www.bazelon.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3-24-20-AL-OCR-Complaint.docx.pdf Tennessee State plan: https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/2016_Guidance_for_the_Ethical_Allocation_of_Scarce_Resources.pdf Advocate planning to file complaint as of March 26 Washington Press Release About Complaint: http://www.bazelon.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3-23-20-WA-COVID-19-HHS-OCR-complaint-press-release.pdf https://thearc.org/disability-discrimination-complaint-filed-over-covid-19-treatment-rationing-plan-in-washington-state/ Complaint: https://www.centerforpublicrep.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/OCR-Complaint_3-23-20-final.pdf UW Medicine Plan: https://covid-19.uwmedicine.org/Screening%20and%20Testing%20Algorithms/Other%20Inpatient%20Clinical%20Guidance/Clinical%20Care%20in%20ICU/Material%20Resource%20Allocation.COVID19.docx

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