[blindLaw] FW: Recording and Materials: Disability Discrimination in the Rationing of Life Saving COVID Treatment: Who Gets Left Behind?

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From: ABA Civil Rights and Social Justice Section <CRSJ at americanbar.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2020 10:41 AM
To: Kielsgard, Alli <Alli.Kielsgard at americanbar.org>
Subject: Recording and Materials: Disability Discrimination in the Rationing
of Life Saving COVID Treatment: Who Gets Left Behind?

Thank you again for registering for our program, Disability Discrimination
in the Rationing of Life Saving COVID Treatment: Who Gets Left Behind?
<https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/events_cle/program-archive/disabili
ty-discrimination-in-the-rationing-of-life-saving-covid-/>  brought to you
by ABA Commission on Disability Rights and Section of Civil Rights and
Social Justice’s Disability Rights and Elder Affairs Committee. We hope you
enjoyed the program and found it as informative as we did. We are grateful
to our panelists - Alison Barkoff, David Carlson, Samantha Crane, Jennifer
Mathis, Ivanova L. Smith, and Shira Wakschlag - for their time and effort
putting together their thoughtful presentation.

For your convenience, we are sharing the program recording and additional
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ty-discrimination-in-the-rationing-of-life-saving-covid-/> . We sincerely
apologize to everyone who couldn’t participate in our program.  The page is
now updated with a captioned recording and we have included a transcript of
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