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Colorado weighs how to ration health care should COVID surge continue to worsen

Denver Post

Nov 11, 2021

The current standards for rationing care largely rely on a formula to quantify patients’ odds of surviving the next month and the next year. The scoring system doesn’t allow the triage team to consider non-medical factors, like a person’s socioeconomic status, but those could be relevant in deciding who can safely be sent home with a referral to outpatient care, said Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH. “I would hate to see… sending someone home who’s homeless,” Wynia said. Read article>>