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Hawaii’s Pandemic Crisis Care Plan Raises Legal And Ethical Concerns

Honolulu Civl Beat

Sep 16, 2021

Hilo Medical Center was operating beyond capacity on September 15th due to the Covid pandemic

Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities said, Hawaii’s plan is very similar to other states and largely uses boilerplate language, but is unusual in how it explicitly describes age and life cycle considerations as determinants. “I see a problem with having an explicit age cut off,” he said. “There’s really very little to differentiate a 64-year-old from a 65-year-old.” Read article>>