Integration of Palliative Care Into All Serious Illness Care as A Human Right

Abstract

Deaths from COVID-19 are approaching 600 000 in the US and 3 million worldwide. As intensive care units have reached or exceeded capacity in many hospitals, concerns have grown about the ethical dimensions of rationed care. But many of these focused on who gets a ventilator, rather than how to provide palliative care to those who are seriously ill, including those treated with ventilators and those who may not want or cannot get a ventilator.

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