CORONAVIRUS

The first batch of coronavirus patients arrived at a makeshift army hospital in eastern France, Tuesday, March 24.
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READ MORE: European governments are scrambling to secure tens of thousands of additional ventilators as well as personal protective gear for health workers, while trying to calm public fears over food supplies, as the coronavirus crisis worsens. 

But countries are competing with each other for the medical equipment they will need, and are fearful they will end up in the position of hard-pressed Italy, where the COVID-19 case numbers and deaths are continuing to soar, despite a strict national lockdown.  

Because of desperate shortages, Italian doctors are having to decide who among the severely sick should be hooked up to ventilators, the oxygen-pumping machines crucial to help patients keep breathing as their lungs fill with fluid. In some northern Italian hospitals, anyone over the age of 60 is not being hooked up, according to some doctors.

The exponential growth in coronavirus cases is unnerving officials across the European continent, who fear their health care systems also will buckle under the pressure. 
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