If there were only one ICU bed and one ventilator left for the critically ill COVID-19 patients crowding hospital hallways, should a 30-year-old, a nurse, a pregnant woman or an Indigenous person go to the front of the queue?Seriously? Give preference to the most useless worthless species on the whole planet?Australian hospitals could choose to prioritise patients who are healthcare workers so that they could get back to work, or young people over the older patients to maximise the years-of-life saved, or pregnant women, parents and carers with elderly relatives who depend on them.
“We might also choose to prioritise First Nations communities,” Dr Dawson and his co-authors wrote, in part as "compensation for previous sustained injustice".
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