Lately it has been suggested that when the number of those needing ventilators exceeds the supply ventilators should be take off old people actually using them and given to younger people.
Today at his briefing Cuomo clearly and repeatedly rejected any idea of treating the lives of older people as less valuable than others and of prioritizing the needs of the younger over the needs of the elderly.
He said the goal in New York is and will remain to provide a ventilator to all who need one and proper care to all who need it.
But when or if it can't be done?
California scrambles to avoid Covid-19's worst-case scenario
They are locked down since Friday and short of everything.
Doctors and hospital administrators are hurrying to draft policies on how to handle decisions on triage and hospital beds in the coming weeks.
“We don’t have much time,” a Los Angeles emergency room physician, Dr Marc Futernick, told the LA Times. “These are decisions that we need to make really soon before we are in the throes of the tsunami.”
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