was designed as a last resort guidance if all other medical guidance options were exhausted—which is what many hospitals are currently experiencing and why the plan was being scrutinized.
In addition, a group of bipartisan Senators and members of Congress, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Sen. James Lankford , For folks like me, who have a loved one with a disability that limits her capability to independently advocate for herself in a hospital, and because we’re in a pandemic where medical providers are excluding family members and caregivers in hopes of stemming additional infections, this kind of talk and these medical action plans have me nightly waking up in a panic.