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Ventilators

Disability rights groups are seeking an order requiring New York Gov. Cuomo and the state health commissioner to revise New York's Ventilator Allocation Guidelines, which would allow hospitals to take sick people's personal ventilators and give them to Covid patients that a mechanical scoring system says have a better chance of survival.

BROOKLYN — Disability rights groups are seeking an order requiring New York Gov. Cuomo and the state health commissioner to revise New York's Ventilator Allocation Guidelines, which would allow hospitals to take sick people's personal ventilators and give them to Covid patients that a mechanical scoring system says have a better chance of survival.

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