'Who lives and who dies': Hospitals could face tough ethics choices
It’s a scenario few health-care leaders want to contemplate much less discuss: What if the ranks of desperately ill patients overwhelm the nation’s ability to care for them?With respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus rapidly spreading, nowhere is that potential more evident than the nation’s limited supply of mechanical breathing machines called ventilators.Desperate scenes are playing out in Italy, where a spike in COVID-19 cases have […]
