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MICHAEL RUBINKAM ‘Protected Them To Death’: Elder-Care COVID Rules Under Fire The impact of COVID-19 regulatory restrictions on the lives of nursing home residents and their families in three states. Among those interviewed are workgroup members Liz Weingast and Karen Lipson, public health experts, and several nursing home residents and family members.
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ELIZABETH WEINGAST AND KAREN LIPSON Ease Restrictions For Nursing Homes Liz Weingast and Karen Lipson, supported by the ESBC Long-Term Care Workgroup, argue in the Albany Times Union that the current restrictions on NYS nursing home residents are not consistent with federal recommendations and lack sufficient ethical justification.
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LONG-TERM CARE WORKGROUP OF THE EMPIRE STATE BIOETHICS CONSORTIUM Vaccinated and Still Isolated: The Ethics of Overprotecting Nursing Homes The ESBC Long-Term Care Workgroup argues in the Hastings Center Bioethics Forum that current restrictions on visitation and social activity are causing significant harm to nursing home residents, harms not sufficiently accounted for in robustly proportionate response to the risk of COVID-19 infection.  | 
HASTINGS BIOETHICS FORUM New York’s Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Initiative: Positive Signs and a Path Forward Recent policies by New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams to identify homeless mentally ill people and remove them from the streets for involuntary treatment have raised many ethical concerns. But there is encouraging news–some individuals brought in under these policies to hospitals that provide longer-term treatment have benefited, ending up in supportive housing.
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