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‘I Need to Know I Tried’ Time-limited trials offer I.C.U. patients and their families a sense of empowerment in the face of low odds. Credit...Elenia Beretta May 10, 2021 In 2019, Dr. Richard Leiter, a palliative care specialist, met a patient and the man’s wife in the intensive care unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The patient, in his 70s, had heart disease and kidney problems. But he had been living at home and doing reasonably well until sepsis, a life-threatening bloodstream infection, sent him to an emergency room. He had already spent several days on a ventilator,...

Line-Jumping to get COVID-19 Vaccines Driven by Selfishness and Fear “We're seeing an absolutely unethical gaming of the system: 'If you don't find loopholes to help yourself,' people say, 'you're the sucker.' " There's no doubt that when demand is high and supply is limited, people are capable of outrageous self-regard. by Alfred Lubrano, The Philadelphia Inquirer / February 8, 2021 TNS (TNS) - Feb. 6—Rich, white New Yorkers flock to a low-income Dominican community and crowd out neighborhood people awaiting COVID-19 vaccinations in...

The (im)morality of line-jumping to get COVID-19 vaccines Alfred Lubrano, The Philadelphia Inquirer © ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Pat DeHorsey gives COVID-19 vaccinations at Montgomery County Community College on Wednesday morning January 6, 2021. Rich, white New Yorkers flock to a low-income Dominican community and crowd out neighborhood people awaiting COVID-19 vaccinations in a cynical moment of intra-city vaccine tourism. Former Sixers’ basketball great Charles Barkley tells the world that NBA players “deserve some preferential treatment” in...