The prospect raises a grim dilemma: Should doctors take people off life support in order to save COVID-19 patients who might recover?
Hospitals are in dire need of lifesaving ventilators. Nursing homes around the US have a good number of ventilators in use by elderly patients many in vegetative state. Redeploying these ventilators to hospitals treating younger Coronavirus patients raises ethical questions.Should hospitals get a preference over nursing homes treating older patients?What ethical questions does this raise?
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