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Intensive care units across the NHS are already overwhelmed by Covid patients (AFP via Getty)
Doctors across the NHS face an “immediate reality” of having to choose which patients are prioritised for care as the numbers of coronavirus cases continue to surge across the country.
At one hospital trust, medics have been told they may have to accept a “just good enough” standard of care for patients in coming weeks, while the medical regulator has said it recognised difficult decisions were being made “day after day, shift after shift” across the country.
The situation facing many hospitals has prompted renewed calls for national advice to clinicians on how they should approach the so-called rationing of care – where treatment choices are balanced against the resources available and the needs of other patients.
Ask Dr. Jeanette Success On “The Way”: “Cow With Stripes?!” “Zebra with Spots?!” “Stay Prepared! What’s Next?!”
By Dr. Jeanette Parker
Dr. Jeanette Parker (file photo)
How about a tomato with genes from a fish?? Or a real cat that lights up in the dark? (dpsnc.instructure.com) We hear about crossbreeding, mingling and mixing different kinds of seeds, animals, foods? As people move through the time continuum in this age, scientists and their collaborators experiment on creating different types of foods and materials for our internal consumption and other uses called
GMOs:
Genetically modified organisms. Which are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering. This creates combinations of plant, animal, bacteria, and virus genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods.”
December 28, 2020
Colombia’s government refusal to provide COVID vaccines to some 900,000 undocumented refugees from Venezuela effectively could result in ethnic cleansing.
The refusal of far-right President Ivan Duque‘s to vaccinate the refugees spurred fierce criticism and fueled xenophobia targeting the 1.7 million refugees, many of whom are Colombian citizens, who are currently estimated to live in Colombia.
We have our priorities, which will always be the Colombian citizens.
President Ivan Duque
Academics warned that excluding part of the population makes no sense from an epidemiological point of view while leading opposition Senator Gustavo Petro stressed that “xenophobia is one of the pillars of fascism” and asked what would happen if Colombians abroad were excluded from vaccination campaigns.
Would a mandatory Covid-19 vaccine be ethically justified? The answer involves a complex trade-off between personal autonomy, bodily integrity and the public good. If we believe that widespread lockdowns are acceptable in the face of Covid-19, then we should also believe that mandatory vaccination is acceptable. Likewise, if we accept the Mental Health Act 1983, which permits compulsory medical treatment of detained persons in certain circumstances, then we should accept that there is basis for mandatory Covid-19 in the law. These are the – rather contentious – arguments that a group of ethicists made to the UK government when it solicited evidence on the human rights implications of the pandemic.