COVID triage standards may worsen racial disparities in treatment

During the crush of the COVID-19 pandemic, overwhelmed doctors and nurses in some places have had to make agonizing decisions about which patients should receive scarce health care resources. However, two Yale-led research studies suggest that a standard measurement designed to help predict which patients have the best chances of survival—and who therefore should receive treatment—could promote racial disparities of treatment outcomes.

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