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Who gets the ventilator? Important legal rights in a pandemic
- Correspondence to Dr Kathleen Liddell, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DZ, UK; k.liddell{at}law.cam.ac.uk
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Who gets the ventilator? Important legal rights in a pandemic
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- Received April 20, 2020
- Accepted April 20, 2020
- First published May 11, 2020.
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June 29, 2020
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