It is widely recognized that the elderly are most at risk from the novel
coronavirus, hence it makes sense to take special efforts to protect them, both for their own sakes and for the sake of the general public.
The nightmare scenario has always been that hospitals would be overwhelmed with people requiring ventilators and intensive care treatment and, as happened in Italy and Spain, for example, doctors would be forced to choose which patients to treat, often resulting in the oldest being left to die.
Full Story (The Jerusalem Post)
