Those guidelines predated the Trump administration and were not written for a pandemic. For instance, HHS allowed hospitals to share Covid-19 information with first responders and with organizations involved in Covid-19 testing. Hospitals were told that they would not face sanctions for sharing information with the families or friends of Covid-19 patients. They help humanize clinical statistics, to make them comprehensible.”Nurses tend to a Covid-19 patient in a Stamford Hospital intensive care unit in Stamford, Conn., on April 24, 2020. As the daily death toll reaches shocking new highs, there continues to be relatively little photography of patients in hospitals.
