ALSO concerning are hospitals running out of hi-flow nasal cannula and BiPap machines used to prevent intubations (see below). In rationing care, patients +70 y.o. with many comorbidities will likely not get off a ventilator, so will not be provided one. This is wartime medicine!
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1343331127789035524
43 y.o. Sara Montoya from El Paso, Texas shown here is on high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC), which can deliver up to 60 liters of oxygen per minute. Regular nasal cannula only delivers 15 L/min. We NEED MORE HFNCs!!! Sadly, Sara Montoya still died from COVID.
Renee Dermott, 52, sixth-grade teacher at Seven Springs Middle School in New Port Richey, Florida was placed on BiPap to provide better oxygenation. Sadly, Renee still died from COVID. 
As hospital capacity is overwhelmed, rationing care will become the standard of care. The lack of ICU beds negatively affects the care of COVID and non-COVID patients. Ventilators, respiratory therapists, ICU-trained nurses, ICU doctors, etc are all LIMITED resources.
You can't just put ANY nurse in the emergency room and ICU and expect them to be competent to manage these critical patients and know how to respond when a patient suddenly crashes and dies.
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