Friday, April 3, 2020

The Covid-19 ranking system that could decide who gets a ventilator


Ambulances in front of the emergency room entrance of the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn on April 02, 2020 in New York. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has asked the US Defense Department for 100,000 body bags as the toll mounts from the novel coronavirus, the Pentagon said on April 2. White House experts have said that US deaths from the disease -- currently at more than 5,100 -- are expected to climb to between 100,000 and 240,000, even with mitigation efforts in force. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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As coronavirus cases increase, US hospitals adopt systems to rank patients for treatment, based on chances of survival and life expectancy

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