Get to the back of the flu queue - The Times 27th August 2007

If hospitals are buckling under the strain now, what would happen during an influenza pandemic? The scary fact is that, when it comes to bed allocation or the dishing out of anti-virals, some of us may be at the back of a very long queue. A Canadian study of patients who contracted severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) offers useful pointers on who should be sent to the back and who should be pushed to the front. It involves genetic discrimination and seems about the fairest way of working out who should get preferential treatment.

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