Pandemic plans exclude people with certain disabilities from being triaged for a ventilator. COVID-19 efforts need to focus on creative ways to build our supply of ventilators and other intensive-care resources, not devising 'who comes first' lists, a Canadian ethicist says.
Sean Peacocke is the Manager of Strategy and the Centre for Leadership at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. He has worked in healthcare for 15 years primarily in Canada but also the United Kingdom, Qatar and Haiti. He started in clinical practice as a speech language pathologist in brain injury rehabilitation and in 2014 moved into strategic, clinical and research leadership.
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Dolly is the clinical bioethicist at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and the Manager, Youth Engagement Strategy.
She is particularly interested in pediatric rehabilitation issues that arise in both clinical care and research with children and youth with chronic illness and disabilities. Dolly has over fifteen years of experience on pediatric research ethics boards, both at acute and rehabilitation hospitals.
