TY - JOUR T1 - Hope or despair: a response to ‘Do not despair about severity—yet’ JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 559 LP - 559 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2020-106162 VL - 46 IS - 8 AU - Daniel Hausman Y1 - 2020/08/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/46/8/559.abstract N2 - This is a brief response to ‘Do not despair about severity—yet’ by Barra et al. It argues that they have no serious criticisms of Daniel Hausman’s essay, ‘The Significance of Severity’” and that indeed their work lends further support to his view that there is no justification for prioritising severity. As policy-akers, Barra and his coauthors are more constrained by popular attitudes, which apparently favour prioritising severity. ER -