Reallocating ventilators during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: Is it ethical?

Affiliations

• ¹ Surgical Oncology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Shreveport, LA.
• ² Department of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix and Phoenix VAMC, Phoenix, AZ.
• ³ Grady Primary Care Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
• ⁴ Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
• ⁵ Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
• ⁶ Christus St. Michael Hospital, Texarkana, TX.
• ⁷ Department of Anesthesia, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
• ⁸ House Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
• ⁹ Department of Pediatrics, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD.
• ¹⁰ Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
• ¹¹ Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York City, NY.
• ¹² Department of Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University - New Orleans, New Orleans, LA.
• ¹³ Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.