April 3, 2020
(ProPublica) – There’s an overlooked reason why hospitals treating COVID-19 patients are so short of protective gear. In January, just before the pandemic hit the United States, a key distributor recalled more than 9 million gowns produced by a Chinese … Read More
April 3, 2020
(WFAA) – According to Dallas County Health and Human Services, 28% of COVID-19 patients who have required hospitalization in Dallas County are diabetic. While the state of Texas says it does not yet have data to provide trends showing diabetes … Read More
April 3, 2020
(Reuters) – Face masks could help limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers who studied the effect of surgical masks on the transmission of other corona and flu viruses. In the study, the use of surgical masks … Read More
April 3, 2020
(The Guardian) – As coronavirus lockdowns have been expanded globally, billions of people have found that they are now faced with unprecedented restrictions. Police across the world have been given licence to control behaviour in a way that would normally … Read More
April 3, 2020
(NPR) – Many public health departments, such as New York City’s, are publishing daily updates on the number, age and location of hospitalized patients. Louisiana is reporting the number of patients on ventilators. Still, other hotspots aren’t releasing numbers at … Read More
April 3, 2020
(Wired) – But what would rationing a ventilator actually mean? To Wall, who also researches clinical bioethics at New York University, the answer was opaque. Would he be asked to prioritize by age, turning away the elderly, as some hospitals … Read More
April 3, 2020
(The Verge) – As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, it has mutated in tiny, subtle ways. Those mutations aren’t cause for concern, and so far, don’t appear to be making the virus any more or less dangerous. But scientists … Read More
April 3, 2020
(Christianity Today) – There are three main ethical concerns that medical professionals are now facing, according to the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity: protecting the vulnerable by not overwhelming health care systems, allocating insufficient medical supplies, and keeping medical … Read More
April 3, 2020
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (vol. 9, no. 3, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Cutting for Equity—Reconstructing the Culture of Surgery that is Still Toxic for Women Surgeons” by Patricia L. Dawson “Double-Edged Scalpels: The Trials and … Read More
April 2, 2020
(Reuters) – Doctors in the Netherlands have been advising elderly patients to think twice before agreeing to COVID-19 treatment in hospital intensive-care units, drawing criticism that they are attempting to ration scarce ICU beds. The affluent Netherlands is rapidly approaching … Read More
