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    HHS Warns States Not To Put People With Disabilities At The Back Of The Line For Care

    States are preparing guidelines for when there's not enough care to go around. Disability groups are worried that those standards will allow rationing that excludes people with disabilities.
    by Joseph Shapiro Mar 28, 2020 2 minutes
    A staffer checks on a ventilator in an intensive care unit in Chennai, India, Friday. States in the U.S. are coming up with plans for what to do if they run out of ventilators and other supplies.

    With coronavirus cases continuing to climb and hospitals facing the prospect of having to decide how to allocate limited staff and resources, the Department of Health and Human Services is reminding states and health care providers that civil rights laws still apply in a pandemic.

    States are preparing for a situation when there's not enough care to go around by issuing

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