What Next - A Doctor’s Hardest Call
Slate Daily Feed28 Sep 2021

What Next - A Doctor’s Hardest Call

It’s hard to imagine, but many states had a plan for how they would make tough calls about the distribution of scarce medical resources during a pandemic. As our present crisis has dragged on, and hospitals have become overwhelmed, those plans are beginning to go into effect -- with some interesting caveats.

Guest: Sheri Fink, correspondent at The New York Times.

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