This was a very good article and pretty spot on, in my experience. My system has not yet faced the crisis point that they did in New York but just like everyone else, we have contingency plans and ethics committees up the wazoo.
What we don't want is having to make these decisions on the fly, in the height of an emergency, without government support, and then face prosecution, as with the Memorial Medical Center catastrophe during Hurricane Katrina. Suffice it to say that the typical governmental body does not want to take the heat of declaring an emergency in which disaster standards of care apply.
On a related note, I went through our official vaccine priority assessment, and was rated in the lowest priority class, as an executive without frequent direct patient contact. In my view, this is as it should be. Our first shipment of vaccine is expected in late December, and it is unlikely we will receive enough to vaccinate all employees, thus the sorting by priority class. I wonder if my wife, as a teacher, may get the vaccine before I do, as part of the push to reopen elementary schools.
