Monthly Archives: April 2020

April 5, 2020

CHA-MN Local COVID-19 Update of March 5

A quick recap of Coronavirus related news from the past week.  As a reminder, the Governor’s 14-day Stay at Home order went into effect at 11:59 pm, one week ago today.  While the Governor has continued to put in place a number of Executive Orders, most have been revisions to his previous orders.  Today, Governor Walz reached the end of his own 14-day self-quarantine, which was the result of exposure to someone on his executive protection team who contracted the Coronavirus.  (more…)
April 5, 2020

Points to Consider: Triage in the Perspective of Catholic Bioethics

Over the past several months, the virus causing COVID-19 disease has been spreading silently throughout the world, infecting hundreds of thousands of people. COVID-19 already has killed over eighteen thousand people worldwide, and it threatens to hospitalize and kill countless more as well as to overwhelm systems of health care delivery. As the pandemic spreads in breadth and depth, people are beginning to call for programs of triage and rationing of health care. How should Catholic health care professionals and administrators address these issues? (more…)