Wesley Buckwalter

Through a mixture of systemic and individual failures, front-line health care workers are in an impossible position: They are, or may be, asked to make the ethically and emotionally fraught decision of who lives and who dies because of Covid-19 — and many Americans have little or no understanding of how that process works or why. This lack of understanding can lead to disagreements, exacerbate tensions between patients and care providers and even intensify feelings of grief or loss.