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WVU law expert says health workers refusing to transport patients, administer oxygen, raises legal and ethical flags

In Los Angeles, emergency workers are deciding who gets taken to the hospital and who doesn’t as nearly 8,000 COVID-19 patients overcrowd its healthcare facilities. Ambulance crews there have been instructed to not take patients with little chance of survival and to reserve oxygen use for hospitalized coronavirus patients, a directive that West Virginia University College of Law Professor Valarie Blake says raises legal and ethical questions.

The link to COVID-19 herd immunity is in the supply chain, says WVU business expert

The journey of the COVID-19 vaccine – from the factory to the needle injected into a patient - is not immune to breaks in the supply chain. John Saldanha knows firsthand from his time in the Merchant Marines and at Dole Food Company that anything can, and likely will, go wrong before a product or service reaches its desired destination: the consumer.