Federal Health Department’s Civil Rights Office To Ensure Medical Providers Do Not Discriminate During Novel Coronavirus Outbreak.
The New York Times (3/28, Fink) reported, “The director of the federal health department’s civil rights office said on Saturday that his office was opening a series of civil rights investigations to ensure that states did not allow medical providers to discriminate on the basis of disabilities, race, age or certain other factors when deciding who would receive lifesaving medical care during the coronavirus emergency.” Roger Severino, the office’s director, “said in an interview that in response to multiple complaints, his office was opening the investigations to ensure that state-mandated rationing plans ‘are fully compliant with civil rights law.’” NPR (3/28, Shapiro) reported, “In Kansas and Tennessee, disability groups and people
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