SPECIAL: Pandemic Ethics in a Children's Hospital. Allocation of resources - Beyond ventilators

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Essential Ethics

Health & Fitness


The SARS-Co2 corona virus has caused the pandemic that many suspected would come, but which has still caught health services by surprise. Medical resources are never infinite, even in wealthy countries with well-developed healthcare systems like Australia. Host, Professor John Massie explores with guest, Professor Lynn Gillam some of the ethical issues around allocation of resources to children during the COVID19 pandemic.