Journal article
Why lockdown of the elderly is not ageist and why levelling down equality is wrong.
- Abstract:
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In order to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19, governments have placed significant restrictions on liberty, including preventing all non-essential travel. These restrictions were justified on the basis the health system may be overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases and in order to prevent deaths. Governments are now considering how they may de-escalate these restrictions. This article argues that an appropriate approach may be to lift the general lockdown but implement selective isolation of the el...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Medical Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 46
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- 717-721
- Publication date:
- 2020-06-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-05-31
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1473-4257
- ISSN:
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0306-6800
- Pmid:
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32561661
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- Copyright holder:
- Savulescu and Cameron
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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