People battling against the deadly coronavirus in hospital may have their treatment withdrawn and offered to others who are more likely to survive, shocking new guidance for doctors has warned.
The latest ethics advice from the British Medical Association’s (BMA) has said that health professionals could be forced to make “grave decisions” should hospitals become overwhelmed with patients.
Decisions around rationing scarce resources, such as ventilators, could determine whether large numbers of patients will receive life-saving treatment or not, the document warns.
The advice states: "It is possible we could reach a point where the decisions made in triage will determine whether potentially large numbers of individuals will receive