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Since the start of the Covid‐19 pandemic, debates have waged about “crisis standards of care” (“CSC”)—the guidelines for the allocation of resources if those resources are too scarce to meet the needs of all patients. The Hastings Center Report's September‐October 2021 issue features a collection of pieces on this debate. In the lead article, MaryKatherine Gaurke and colleagues object to the idea that the allocation of scarce resources should aim to save the most “life‐years,” arguing instead that the objective should be to save the most lives. Gaurke et al. assert that it is only theorists who have favored the life‐years strategy; the public has not—or at least, there is no good evidence that the public...
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