What Next: A Doctor’s Hardest Call

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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It’s hard to imagine, but many states had a plan for how they would make tough calls about the distribution of scarce medical resources during a pandemic. As our present crisis has dragged on, and hospitals have become overwhelmed, those plans are beginning to go into effect -- with some interesting caveats. Guest: Sheri Fink, correspondent at The New York Times. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Davis Land, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, and Carmel Delshad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5	It's hard to remember now, but back before anyone knew
0:37.9	what a coronavirus was, we had plans for what to do
0:42.4	if one emerged.
0:44.1	It wasn't a complete plan.
0:45.8	It wasn't even one single plan, more like a lot of little plans,
0:50.0	state by state, hospital by hospital.
0:53.4	But doctors were imagining a moment like this one.
0:56.8	So a number of years ago, well over a decade ago,
1:01.2	there was the H1N1 flu pandemic.
1:04.4	If you remember that, Cheri think reports for the New York Times.
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