“ All hospitals are slated to be mandated to follow a state ventilator rationing model. First, the state declares that we are transitioning to "crisis care", and this absolves the docs of liability. Each hospital has an ethics team separate from the bedside docs that decides who gets a shot at a ventilator, based on 4 categories of priority. The ethics team tells the bedside doc to terminally extubate those that are in the category of lower predicted survival to allow us to give the vent to a patient with a higher predicted survival. The families are not allowed to visit, so they get a call that the ventilator is not going to save their loved one. That vent is then going to someone who has a better chance of survival.”