Coronavirus: Pandemic ethics

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Bioethicist Jonathan Moreno and Yahoo News National Correspondent Andrew Romano join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Moreno talks about the catastrophic reality of the coronavirus, the ethical decisions doctors are forced to make in regards to who lives and who dies, and how a vaccine will be distributed if and when one becomes available. Then Romano weighs in on how the virus has and will effect the Democratic and Republican campaigns for the presidency while updated us on the status of the virus from a west coast perspective.

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgoth, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.3	As the number of coronavirus cases continue to soar,
0:23.9	and the shortages of ventilators, masks, and other badly needed supplies become more acute,
0:30.1	doctors and healthcare workers are starting to face
0:33.1	agonizing ethical dilemmas. How should medical care be rationed in the midst of a pandemic
0:38.8	with no end in sight? In overwhelmed emergency rooms, who should be put on ventilators
0:44.8	and who should be denied them when there are not enough to go around?
0:49.0	In short, who should live and who should die? We'll talk to Dr. Jonathan Moreno,
0:55.0	a leading bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania.
0:58.7	And we'll talk to Yahoo News' national correspondent Andrew Romano
1:03.3	on how the latest dismal news is affecting the election campaign
1:07.2	on this episode of SkullDuggery.
1:16.3	Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of CROB,
1:19.3	well, I'm not a CROB. I told the American people I did not create arms for hospitals.
1:23.7	My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence
1:28.5	tell me it is not. I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
1:33.7	There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.
1:47.6	I'm Michael Isacov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
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