Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
“North Texas doctors have quietly developed a plan that seeks to prepare for the possibility that due to the COVID-19 surge the region will run out of intensive-care beds,” the Dallas Morning News reports.
“If that happens, for the first time, doctors officially will be allowed to take vaccination status of sick patients into account along with other triage factors to see who gets a bed.”
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