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BIOUNCERTAINTY - ERC Starting Grant no. 805498

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Intensive care in crisis conditions

Intensive care in crisis conditions

From reports on the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in various countries, especially Italy and Spain, we find out about desperate doctors who - in the absence of sufficient number of respirators - were forced to decide which of the suffocating patients would be given a chance to be saved. It seems that in such difficult decisions, doctors should not be abandoned - left without any normative support, relying only on an individual "conscience". We invite you to read the discussion on this topic.