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Faced with a crush of patients, besieged NYC hospitals struggle with life-or-death decisions

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.

Ambulances are seen lined up outside the Elmhurst Hospital Center's Trauma Center entrance in Queens.
Ambulances are seen lined up outside the Elmhurst Hospital Center's Trauma Center entrance in Queens.Read moreMary Altaffer / AP
    by Ariana Eunjung Cha, Lenny Bernstein, Frances Stead Sellers and Shane Harris, Washington Post
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