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Doctors are making life-and-death choices over coronavirus patients – it could have long-term consequences for them

  • Written by Neil Shortland, Director, Center for Terrorism and Security Studies; Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Doctors are making life-and-death choices over coronavirus patients – it could have long-term consequences for themDoctors are facing difficult choices in the coronavirus pandemic.Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP

As the coronavirus spreads and demand for medical gear far outstrips the supplies, doctors in the U.S. may have to choose who among their patients lives and who dies. Doctors in Italy have already been forced to make such moral choices.

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