202005.16
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May 16, 2020: COVID-19 & Interim Guidance for Communities of Faith (BUT Specific guidelines for reopening churches during the coronavirus pandemic were excluded from a set of documents released by the CDC this week)

Interim Guidance for Communities of Faith   https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/organizations/guidance-community-faith-organizations.html https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/3-17-20-faith-and-community-based-covid-19-faq.pdf but see https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cdc-documents-on-reopening-do-not-include-suggestions-for-churches-28461

202004.15
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April 15, 2020 – Triage: Maintaining a Catholic Ethic in Difficult Times

https://christmedicus.org/triage-maintaining-catholic-ethic-in-difficult-times/ The COVID-19 Coronavirus has been challenging. One challenge has been determining how scarce medical resources are allocated among patients, particularly when the patients outnumber the available resources. The process of determining how different medical situations are prioritized, and then applying care and resources to people in those situations, is known as triage. The goal…

202004.06
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April 6, 2020 – CMF Applauds HHS’s Civil Rights and Religious Freedom Bulletin and Urges Rejection of Utilitarian Approach to Rationing Health Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic

For Immediate Release: CMF Applauds HHS’s Civil Rights and Religious Freedom Bulletin and Urges Rejection of Utilitarian Approach to Rationing Health Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic The Christ Medicus Foundation praises the Bulletin of the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) entitled Civil Rights, HIPAA, and the…

202003.25
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March 25, 2020 – Points to Consider: Triage in the Perspective of Catholic Bioethics

https://ncbcstore.org/ncbc-resources-for-covid19/triage-in-the-perspective-of-catholic-bioethics?fbclid=IwAR35oT8g7Gbbv-nmkczhqPJATmUzbVaE0pPfZ7ByPSJFQMejN9A7NYGf5nU Over the past several months, the virus causing COVID-19 disease has been spreading silently throughout the world, infecting hundreds of thousands of people. COVID-19 already has killed over eighteen thousand people worldwide, and it threatens to hospitalize and kill countless more as well as to overwhelm systems of health care delivery. As the pandemic…