Our Treatment of the Elderly in the Pandemic Is Morally Bankrupt

In societies where elders are honored around the world, the death toll is much lower

Andy Slavitt
Medium Coronavirus Blog
4 min readSep 14, 2020

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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called us out for “moral bankruptcy” in our Covid-19 response. He’s exactly right.

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