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ATS 2021, New York, NY - A weighted lottery designed to increase access to the antiviral drug remdesivir during the May-July 2020 COVID-19 surge for those most affected by the coronavirus, including members of the Black, Latinx and indigenous communities, led to more equitable distribution of the badly needed medication, according to research presented at the ATS 2021 International Conference.
At a time when supplies of COVID-19 medications were scarce, Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, vice chair and professor of critical care medicine, UPMC endowed chair for ethics in critical care medicine and director of the Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and colleagues, convened a multi-institution consortium of experts to develop a weighted lottery, in which some patients would be given higher priority for receiving remdesivir while others would be given lower priority.
‘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.
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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, requiring drugs to keep his blood pressure from plummeting. Now, “his kidneys were no longer working and he wasn’t waking up at all,” Dr. Leiter recalled, adding, “We were very worried that he wasn’t going to survive.”
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 a cynical moment of intracity vaccine tourism.
Former 76ers basketball great Charles Barkley tells the world that NBA players deserve some preferential treatment in getting vaccinated because they pay such high taxes.