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With masks and ventilators in short supply, The World asks how health care providers around the world decide to allocate scarce resources. Host Marco Werman speaks with Dr Ezekiel Emanuel, a former health policy adviser to President Barack Obama and co-author of a new article on allocating scarce medical resources in the New England Journal of Medicine.