{"id":67635,"date":"2021-08-21T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=67635"},"modified":"2021-08-21T16:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T16:23:26","slug":"tx-doctors-broach-topic-of-prioritizing-vaccinated-over-un-vaccinated-when-treatment-resources-scarce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=67635","title":{"rendered":"TX Doctors Broach Topic of Prioritizing Vaccinated Over Un-Vaccinated When Treatment Resources Scarce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/watchdog\/2021\/08\/19\/if-north-texas-runs-out-of-icu-hospital-beds-doctors-can-consider-a-patients-vaccination-status\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>: &#8220;<em><strong>Updated at 8:15 p.m. Aug. 19, 2021:<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;<em>After this story was posted, Dr. Mark Casanova gave interviews to local media and revised his story. He described the memo to the task force as a \u201chomework assignment.\u201d In a reversal, he told NBC-5 that vaccinations should not be among the factors hospitals should consider when making critical care triage decisions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Original story published Aug. 19, 2021:<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;North Texas doctors have quietly developed a plan that seeks to prepare for the possibility that due to the COVID-19 surge the region will run out of intensive-care beds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If that happens, for the first time, doctors officially will be allowed to take vaccination status of sick patients into account along with other triage factors to see who gets a bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A copy of an internal memo written by Dr. Robert Fine, co-chair of the North Texas Mass Critical Care Guideline Task Force, was sent to members of the task force &#8212; and leaked to The Watchdog. It summarizes the latest work by the task force, a volunteer group that periodically updates medical guidelines for hospitals in our region. There are about 50 members from various hospitals in the group. Although their recommendations are not enforceable, the guidelines are generally followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one-page summary memo is a \u201cheads up\u201d alert in the event things get worse, says Dr. Mark Casanova, director of clinical ethics for Baylor University Medical Center and a spokesperson for the task force. After Monday\u2019s meeting, doctors had yet to make plans to inform the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re trying to decide how to explain this addition to the public,\u201d Casanova said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Morning News: &#8220;Updated at 8:15 p.m. Aug. 19, 2021:&nbsp;After this story was posted, Dr. Mark Casanova gave interviews to local media and revised his story. He described the memo to the task force as a \u201chomework assignment.\u201d In a reversal, he told NBC-5 that vaccinations should not be among the factors hospitals should consider&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67654,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67635\/revisions\/67654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}