COMMENT | Covid-19: Out with the elderly?

COMMENT | Should we value all human lives equally?

This question arose in an acute form in March when the coronavirus overwhelmed Italy’s health-care system. Envisaging a situation in which there would not be enough ventilators for all patients needing one, a working group of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care reluctantly supported rationing by age...