Utah, Minnesota face legal threats for using race to determine COVID treatment eligibility
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America First Legal is threatening lawsuits after Minnesota and Utah said they would consider race and ethnicity in determining eligibility for coronavirus treatments.
Utah has published a scoring system by which it determines patients' "risk" and eligibility for treatments. At the top of the list is "male," "age" and "Non-White race or Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity." Most of the various risk factors – including "other high-risk comorbidities" – receive one point while the racial/ethnic category receives two, the same amount designated for "highest-risk comorbidities" like diabetes, obesity and being severely immunocompromised.
Age plays a considerable role as individuals are assigned 0.5 points for every decade they've been alive.
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