In the chaos of New York City, where coronavirus deaths are mounting so quickly that freezer trucks have been set up as makeshift morgues, several hospitals have taken the unprecedented step of allowing doctors not to resuscitate people with covid-19 to avoid exposing health-care workers to the highly contagious virus. A nurse in New York hospital cannot remember how many people she has seen die from coronavirus, but it is the manner of their departures that has stuck in her head. There are a million ways in which New York could have handled this situation, but they appear to have … Continue reading Patients dying left and right as hospital in NY ‘murders’ them