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Ventilator Shortage Reportedly Raises Rationing Concerns; OCR Investigates Guidelines.

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TIME (4/22, Park, Kluger) reports, “Anywhere from 3% to 19% of COVID-19 patients will wind up in an intensive care unit (ICU), often requiring ventilators to breathe,” and “if the flow of patients continues to outpace the supply of ventilators, doctors will be making heart-wrenching decisions about how to distribute those precious few devices.” Time also reports, “The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights in April conducted a review of Alabama’s 2010 guidelines for rationing ventilators based on exclusion criteria, for allegedly discriminating based on age and disability” and the state has since revised its guidelines..

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