In the face of Covid, should hospitals ration health care?

Yes, it's yet another Covid thread, but I think this aspect needs a new thread.

A COVID Surge Is Overwhelming U.S. Hospitals, Raising Fears Of Rationed Care

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The U.S. health care system is again buckling under the weight of a COVID-19 surge that has filled more than 100,000 hospital beds nationwide and forced some states to consider enacting "crisis standards of care" ? a last resort plan for rationing medical care during a catastrophic event. The idea is an alarming sign of how the delta variant has ripped through large swaths of the country ? primarily sickening the unvaccinated and straining an already depleted health care workforce. In recent weeks, more than 10 states have reached their highest hospital admissions for COVID-19 of the pandemic, from the Southeast to the Pacific Northwest. And the U.S. continues to average more than 160,000 new coronavirus cases a day.

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While there are national guidelines for crisis standards, the actual plans can vary depending on the state, region or institution. Declaring crisis standards does not necessarily mean patients will be denied care altogether, but it does give hospitals flexibility about whom to prioritize and provides legal protection for doctors. For example, certain patients deemed less likely to survive may not get a bed in the intensive care unit. Nurses may be asked to treat many more patients than is normally considered safe. Patients may have to be discharged from the hospital before they would normally go home, and some patients who would usually be admitted for hospital care might have to be denied.

I've got a plan. Covid patients are asked whether or not they are vaccinated. Provide proof of vaccination, you get admitted. Admit you are unvaccinated, you get your stupid ass thrown back into the street. Go home and die. Your stupidity is not going to be accommodated while somebody else dies of a treatable illness because there's no bed for them.

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