Doctors will have to choose who gets life-saving treatment. Here's how we'll do it | John Chisholm

Robust ethical rules on coronavirus are vital to guide us to the right decision, however agonising, says John Chisholm, chair of the BMA’s medical ethics committee

The headlines are stark: a “tsunami” of Covid-19 patients moving inexorably toward London’s hospitals and then spreading out across the rest of the UK. Despite heroic efforts to increase supply – and reduce demand – there may come a point when this tsunami will simply overwhelm intensive-care beds, ventilators and life-support machines. Although we hope this will not be happen, it is important we begin to think now about how we would respond should that situation arise.

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