Join the Centre for Ethics for The Ethics of COVID, an interdisciplinary series of online events featuring short video takes on the ethical dimensions of the COVID crisis.

Pandemic Clinical Triage Protocols: Adding Insult to Injury for People with Disabilities

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, triage protocols and guidance documents have been drafted to facilitate decisions about access to critical care in situations of acute shortages. Several of these have evoked debate about their compatibility with human rights standards, even when they are presented as based on objective clinical criteria. For many people with disabilities, who feel already disproportionately affected by the pandemic and by measures to control it, some of these protocols add insult to injury. This presentation will explore why some of the Canadian documents are discriminatory and how the concerns they raise can be addressed.

This is an online event. It will be live streamed on the Centre for Ethics YouTube Channel at 3pm, Wednesday, May 13. Channel subscribers will receive a notification at the start of the live stream.

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Trudo Lemmens
University of Toronto
Faculty of Law

Wed, May 13, 2020
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
200 Larkin