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By George J. Annas and Sondra S. Crosby This editorial can be found in the latest issue of American Journal of Bioethics. Lowering the standard of care in a pandemic is a recipe for inferior care and discrimination. Wealthy white patients will continue to get “standard of care” medicine, while the poor and racial minorities (especially black and brown people) will get what is openly described as substandard care rationalized by the assertion that substandard care is all that we can deliver to them in a crisis.…
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