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Ep. 32 Ethics of COVID-19 Response

Bioethics on Air

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How to Determine a Priority Score in a Pandemic

Catholic health care systems are asking how do you determine the tiebreaker. One option would just be to say well who got there first and that's not necessarily fair or treating people equally. A second way would be to make it by chance so give people lottery numbers literally throw the dice. Third thing is that you would make a choice based on some sort of ordered understanding of the good of the human good  and that gets controversial because as soon as you say we're going to choose this person over that person you try to avoid that with the SOFA score or Apache 2.

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