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SThey threaten to reappear: the images of exhausted nurses, dejected doctors and overcrowded intensive care units that have very few intensive care beds, trained staff and ventilators for seriously ill Covid 19 patients admitted. Not in Germany, but in France or England, where infection rates are rising steeply next fall, to where they have been in Brazil or Peru for a long time. The medical staff faced bottlenecks with a moral dilemma: Who should be given an intensive care bed when there are so few?
How to turn it around: With too few resources, you will not be able to fulfill the moral right of every seriously ill person to receive medical help. Decisions based on the chances of success of the respective treatment are an interim solution, but not a morally soft solution that allows you to sleep peacefully. In Germany, this is more of a theoretical problem. Currently, only about one percent of intensive care beds for Covid 19 patients are said to be occupied. But general health protection can quickly reach its limits again. This means that measures are morally imperative to not let things go that far (again).
