Mitchell Blutt, MD, leads Consonance Capital in New York and provides solutions within the professional health care investment sphere. In a recent opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal “Operation Covid Airlift Would Be Medevac in Reverse,” Dr. Mitchell Blutt explores one solution to a lack of ventilators for coronavirus patients.

Hospitals in locations from Italy to New York face an uphill battle in caring for the sheer number of COVID-19 patients, and the reasons for this challenge are complex. One potential solution involves resolving a “geographical mismatch” that exists between critical-care resources and the patients urgently requiring their use.

With hospitals often uncomfortable parting with precious ventilators and the staff that manages them, the preferable pathway might be to move patients from coronavirus hotspots to locations where there are adequate numbers of ventilators and ventilator technicians. Taking the pressure off geographical locations that are overwhelmed with patients to areas with a surplus of trained staff and medical equipment seems both logical and economical.

To access the article, visit https://www.wsj.com/articles/operation-covid-airlift-would-be-medevac-in-reverse-11585695115.