When Pope Pius XII was asked about the practice of giving morphine to people in pain at the end of life, which could shorten their life, he said this was acceptable.
This is not the same as overdosing to the point of death a person who already is comatose or without pain.
And it is not the same as giving morphine related opioids or sedation to people for shortness of breath from an infectious disease that could cause respiratory depression and death.
Dr. C notes that the NICE guidelines in the UK said it was okay to give sedation to covid patients with air hunger from pulmonary problems.
Did this unnecessarily lead to their deaths?
Of course a similar argument could be made in the USA where these patients were sedated but put on respirators, and they therefore died (some anti vax types blamed the respirators).
Dr. C is looking into the data, but here is his preliminary report:
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