Do what the ERs do (or are supposed to do). Give critical care to those most in need of critical care and/or those that are the most vulnerable ....and let the younger, healthier patients, whose immune systems are stronger, wait for care at a later time, if still needed.
ERs, Paramedics, field battlefiels hospitals, medics and corpsmen, learn and practice Triage.
Go back and reread the article, citing ONE Doctor, and ONE report, which is intended to tug at heartstrings, but nothing more.
Meanwhile each time there's a multi-car crash with multiple injured, the EMT makes the same split second judgments. He learned them during training.
Allocation of limited medical resources, means making tough dcisions.
Gullible easily manippulated readers?