Experts offer 6 recommendations to guide healthcare providers in a paper published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
Here are those 6 key principles:
- among sick patients, favor those who can recover if treated
- give front-line healthcare workers priority
- don't follow "first come, first served" principle for equity
- adapt priorities based on intervention
- prioritize patients participating trials
- don't differentiate between COVID-19 patients and others
