A Civil Rights Bulletin issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) gives guidance to "state, local, tribal, and territorial partners" and recommends lead health care providers against discriminatory health care rationing.An excerpt from the guidelines states:
"Make medical treatment decisions, including denials of care under Crisis Standards of Care and allocation of ventilators, after an individualized consideration of each person, free from stereotypes and biases, including generalizations and judgments about the individual’s quality of life or relative value to society, based on the individual’s disability, age, race, income level, or any protected basis. This individualized consideration should be based on current objective medical evidence and the expressed views of the patients themselves as opposed to unfounded assumptions."
National Right to Life thanked the Trump administration for writing these guidelines. “Our health care system is designed to save lives,” National Right to Life president Carol Tobias commented. “No one facing the serious health issues from a coronavirus diagnosis should worry about whether they will receive the care they need because of their age or disability.”
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