Accounting for vulnerability to illness and social disadvantage in pandemic critical care triage. 
In a pandemic situation, resources in intensive care units may be stretched to the breaking point, and critical care triage may become necessary.  In such a situation, I argue that a patient's combined vulnerability to illness and social disadvantage should be a justification for giving that patient some priority for critical care.  In this article I present an example of a critical care triage protocol that recognizes the moral relevance of vulnerability to illness and social disadvantage, from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.