Utilitarismus: Die richtige Medizin für die Pandemie

A pandemic reveals shortages and forces come countries to ration access to intensive care. The supply of ICU beds and personal needs to be determined before the pandemic. The rules for planning and use of capacities can be the same and follow utilitarian norms. We illustrate this for the hold-back capacities in acute hospital care. In addition, we deal with the reasons that justify the regulatory measures and criticize the inconsistent attitude of governments with regard to the massive containment measures in the lockdowns as compared to the absence of compulsion within vaccination programs.