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During a COVID-19 surge, ‘crisis standards of care’ involve excruciating choices and impossible ethical decisions for hospital staff

  • Written by Matthew Wynia, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageAmid the latest surge of COVID-19 cases, health care workers yet again are having to make difficult triage decisions in caring for patients. Morsa Images/E+ via Getty Images

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