Overwhelmed hospitals, equipment shortages: Coronavirus pandemic plays out as state planners expected
As the coronavirus scuds across the USA, killing thousands and depleting medical resources, the pandemic is playing out as emergency officials around the country assumed when they drafted response plans over the past decade: A spreading disease would overwhelm hospitals, raising a strong possibility that physicians would have to choose which patients get life-sustaining care and which would die because of a shortage of medical […]
