RUSH EXCERPT:
CHOO: “Yeah, it’s tough, and this echoes, of course, the shortages that we’ve seen since the very beginning of the pandemic. It starts to feel familiar, doesn’t it? We never have enough of these critical resources, whether it’s tests or in-hospital supplies, ventilators, things like that. Once again, we’re here with a critical resource that we need to address the pandemic and we have to make decisions about who gets it first. So among health care workers it’s clear that we’ll have to make some sub-categories. We’ll select out people who probably have the highest surface area contact with patients, people working in emergency rooms and intensive care units and in the operating rooms and people who have to work under really high risk and uncertain conditions like trauma surgeons and anesthesiologists.”