STAY HOME, SAVE A LIFE Time and again in this coronavirus pandemic, our political leaders have said that social distancing is vital so as ‘not to overwhelm the NHS.’ In plain terms, that means that we want to avoid the nightmare scenario when there are insufficient resources to meet the needs of those who require critical attention. Agonising choices would have to be made as to who should be treated. At the beginning of the pandemic, an article appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine spelling out some of the ethical challenges a pandemic might bring. When there are...