With demand outpacing supply of beds and respirators, medical workers are told to prioritize younger patients
As the number of infected keeps rising — the number of reported cases inMonday, more than 70 percent of them in Lombardy — hospitals are scrambling to increase the number of beds available in intensive care units. Some have closed entire wards to dedicate them to severe coronavirus cases. Others have transformed operating rooms into intensive care units. Doctors are working grueling shifts to cover for colleagues who fall ill.
"It is a fact that we will have to choose [whom to treat] and this choice will be entrusted to individual operators on the ground who may find themselves having ethical problems," said a doctor working in one of Milan's largest hospitals.
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