From WSJopinion: Is the sudden reach for rationing medical care even necessary? Ventilators are not simple to manufacture, but neither were Spitfire fighter planes at the beginning of the Battle of Britain, writes Allen C. Guelzo
The coronavirus has introduced terrifying terms into our everyday vocabulary—“social distancing,” “ventilator,” “pandemic.” Be prepared to add a new word to the vernacular: rationing.
The U.S. has reported more than 80,000 cases of Covid-19. About half are in New York and more than 10,000 cases were reported in a single day. If projections by Cory Chivers, a data scientist at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, are correct, those numbers represent 15% of all cases. American hospitals have only about 96,000 intensive-care...
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