Covid-19 presents stark choices between life, death and the economy

IMAGINE HAVINGThe EconomistThe Economist Today two critically ill patients but just one ventilator. That is the choice which could confront hospital staff in New York, Paris and London in the coming weeks, just as it has in Lombardy and Madrid. Triage demands agonising decisions (see ). Medics have to say who will be treated and who must go without: who might live and who will probably die.