As sad as it is, prioritization is nothing new in healthcare, you don't have unlimited financial and human resources and amount of health issues far outnumber a

As sad as it is, prioritization is nothing new in healthcare, you don't have unlimited financial and human resources and amount of health issues far outnumber available care. My cousin died few weeks after being born due to heart defect that was operable, but waiting list was too long and no amount of pleading from parents and grandparents changed her position in that list. Every single old person is a swarm of more or less critical issues that are much better treated among young population. There is a billion of those elders at least. But to state it officially is a political suicide, nobody in elected democracy will do that. Unofficially, its been happening in hospitals since they were created, but for other reasons. One solution might be to actually ramp down covid care, so that rest of healthcare can work as before. This would probably save more lives overall than even the strictest lockdowns. And have some system for covid treatment which prioritizes vaccinated/immunosuppressed at least a bit without stating it in plain sight.