KUTV2 News Utah: How Utah Patients will be Scored, with a Controversial Tie-Breaker (October 27, 2020)
As Utah prepared to implement a care rationing system for managing its overflowing hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, Justice in Aging Litigation Director, Regan Bailey, appeared on a local television to talk about how using age as a tie-breaker illegally discriminates against older adults.
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