Disabled to be denied COVID-19 care?

Antonella Artuso, Toronto Sun, April 7, 2020
A document that has left people with disabilities scared they’ll be denied an intensive care bed or ventilator during the COVID-19 pandemic is just a draft, Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott says. The Clinical Triage Protocol for Major Surge in COVID Pandemic, a copy obtained by the Toronto Sun dated March 28 is not stamped with the word draft, sets out guidelines for health-care professionals as a last resort when allocating life-saving resources during a shortage. Advocates say the document makes unfair value judgments about the quality of lives lived by those in the disabled community in violation of their human rights, and has left many of them fearful that they won’t be entitled to the same level of care as everybody else.