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(Note: These are the kind of decisions exhausted, terrified and sleep-deprived healthcare workers in Italy fighting COVID-19 have to make, with little or no training in ethical decision-making. Please advise them using your training in ethical decision making.)

1.         Consider the now-not-so-hypothetical situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic in which there are two patients, an 80-year-old and a 40-year-old, both needing the machine to breathe.

2.         How about a 60-year-old who is a major donor to the hospital, or a 30-year-old fruit vendor who pushes his cart in the streets all day long? 

3.         What if a 65-year-old professor has a better shot at quality life for the next decade if he survives, versus a 35-year-old man with colonic cancer with an unknown outcome? (

b- It is possible to develop biological weapons in the laboratory. These weapons can target people carrying certain genes and mutate more rapidly in response to medicines. (5- marks)

Question: In such a scenario, will you choose to get genetically edited using CRISPR to protect yourself, or you will choose to accept this onslaught? Explain your decision.

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Case One In this case there is a need to embrace the ethical theory of fairness The theory maintains that when there are differences in treatment thos... View the full answer