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The Life-or-Death Lottery We All Better Hope We Can Avoid
FROM BAD TO WORSE
Our current shortage of ventilators means doctors could be forced to flip a coin to decide which patients live and which die if the pandemic gets worse.
Michael Daly
Special Correspondent
Published
Mar. 16 2020
4:12AM EDT
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Michael Daly
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