Ventilator shortage during coronavirus crisis forcing doctors to decide who lives or dies
April 03 2020, 08:00
It's the most heart-wrenching decision any medical professional on the frontlines could make: deciding who to save and who to let die. As coronavirus, officially called COVID-19, attacks the globe – amid a vast shortage of life-saving devices – it's a decision more and more doctors every day are being forced to wrestle, and will only swell if the rationing of ventilators becomes unavoidable.
It's the most heart-wrenching decision any medical professional on the frontlines could make: deciding who to save and who to let die. As coronavirus, officially called COVID-19, attacks the globe – amid a vast shortage of life-saving devices – it's a decision more and more doctors every day are being forced to wrestle, and will only swell if the rationing of ventilators becomes unavoidable.
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FOX News