id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-024077-7o3qhfk3 Behrens, Kevin G. Clinical Ethical Challenges in the Covid-19 Crisis in South Africa 2020-04-17 .txt text/plain 1277 78 57 They assert, "priority for limited resources should aim both at saving the most lives and at maximizing improvements in individuals' post-treatment length of life".(2) Given the lack of time and information in this pandemic, they go on to claim that it is "justifiable to give priority to maximizing the number of patients that survive treatment with a reasonable life expectancy and to regard maximizing improvements in length of life as a subordinate aim".(2) Several recent publications broadly agree with this position.(3-6) Emanuel et al. Allocation of scarce critical care resources during the COVID-19 public health emergency in South Africa.