How Your COVID-Flooded Hospital Will Triage – TPM

Hospitals around the country face a grim winter as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge. It’s shaping up to be a national triage situation.
But many state and local governments, and hospital associations, have planned for what could be reality in a few weeks. That is, what to do when the number of patients far outstrips the ability of a hospital or health care system to treat them?
The upshot is that as numbers continue to grow, the effects of overwhelmed hospitals could stretch far beyond…

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