protective equipment (PPE) amid the COVID-19 pandemic, experts are offering recommendations to enable ethical allocation.In an article today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), an international group of experts on medical ethics and health policy give six recommendations to ensure that patients are treated equally and that individual physicians don't have to make the "terrible" decision about which patients receive life-sustaining treatment and which do not.Meanwhile, the authors of a Mar 19 article published in Health Security describe strategies for state and local public health officials to distribute stockpiled ventilators to hospitals to achieve the greatest benefit.And in related guidance published Mar 20 in The Lancet