Those in the medical field face some of the most extreme crisis management situations one could imagine, including this one, described in an article from ProPublica.org:
With scant public input, state and federal officials are pushing ahead with plans that — during a severe flu outbreak — would deny use of scarce ventilators by some patients to assure they would be available for patients judged to benefit the most from them.
The plans have been drawn up to give doctors specific guidelines for extreme circumstances, and they include procedures under which patients who weren’t improving would be removed from life support with or without permission of their families.
Government representatives would be very wise to have credible key messages on this subject very soon, if they don’t want it to escalate into a full-fledged crisis
JB
Jonathan Bernstein
https://www.bernsteincrisismanagement.com/