11 May 2020 - As coronavirus cases surged across the United States earlier this year, doctors faced a harrowing prospect. Sometime soon, they worried, physicians might have to decide which patients would receive ventilators amid a projected shortage.
It's a crisis Italy faced and one the United States largely avoided.
But already, doctors in the US are facing another difficult decision: how to ration limited supplies of an experimental drug shown to be effective against the virus.