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Oregon Hospitals Didnt Have Shortages. So Why Were Disabled People Denied Care? at 12:21 pm NPR At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a small group of disability rights advocates found itself in a race against time to save the life of a woman with an intellectual disability. The woman was taken to the hospital with COVID-19. But the hospital, in a small Oregon town, denied the ventilator she needed. Instead, a doctor, citing her "low quality of life," wanted her to sign a ...

Oregon Hospitals Didnt Have Shortages. So Why Were Disabled People Denied Care? Masks hang from an IV pole at a hospital. Jenny Kane / AP At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a small group of disability rights advocates found itself in a race against time to save the life of a woman with an intellectual disability. The woman was taken to the hospital with COVID-19. But the hospital, in a small Oregon town, denied the ventilator she needed. Instead, a doctor, citing her "low q...

Masks hang from an IV pole at a hospital. Jenny Kane/AP At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a small group of disability rights advocates found itself in a race against time to save the life of a woman with an intellectual disability. The woman was taken to the hospital with COVID-19. But the hospital, in a small Oregon town, denied the ventilator she needed. Instead, a doctor, citing her "low quality of life," wanted her to sign a legal form to allow the hospital to deny her c...

As Hospitals Fear Being Overwhelmed By COVID-19, Do The Disabled Get The Same Access? By Joseph Shapiro  December 14, 2020 On the morning of April 21, Sarah McSweeney woke up with a temperature of 103 degrees — and it kept rising. Staff at her group home worried that the woman with multiple disabilities — she couldn’t walk or speak words — had contracted COVID-19. They got her into her bright pink wheelchair and hurried to the hospital, just a block down the street from the group home ...

As Hospitals Fear Being Overwhelmed By COVID-19, Do The Disabled Get The Same Access? Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Kimberly Conger, Sarah McSweeneys nurse at her group home, shows a photo of McSweeney on her phone. She says McSweeney was outgoing and fun: "She absolutely adored going into malls and getting her makeup done and getting her hair done." Celeste Noche for NPR On the morning of April 21, Sarah McSweeney woke up with a temperature of 103 degrees — an...