The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing our society to make choices of a magnitude and intensity whose consequences we cannot yet measure. If it is justified to back up decisions with the expertise of scientists, crucial decisions are a matter of political responsibility. In public health, they are an indelible marker of the hierarchy of our social values and priorities. The arbitration of choices in resuscitation in a context of limited resources, and in view of their consequences in terms of life and death, cannot be the sole responsibility of doctors.
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Our elders are now informed: these are in particular age criteria which determine in Italy the inevitable choice between those who are resuscitated or those whom the doctors give up resuscitating for lack of sufficient devices. The imminence of similar circumstances in France accentuates the feeling of insecurity and fears. It is important to be assured of the relevance of the decision criteria
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