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The Toughest Triage — Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic

Τhe Covid-19 pandemic has led to severe shortages of many essential goods and services, from hand sanitizers and N-95 masks to ICU beds and ventilators.

Although rationing is not unprecedented, never before has the American public been faced with the prospect of having to ration medical goods and services on this scale.

  • Robert D. Truog, M.D., Christine Mitchell, R.N., and George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D.
  • The New England Journal of Medicine

Of all the medical care that will have to be rationed, the most problematic will be mechanical ventilation.

Several countries, but not the United States, have already experienced a…

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