Crisis Standards of Care and COVID-19: What Did We Learn? How Do We Ensure Equity? What Should We Do?

The authors are grateful to have been involved in many conversations with providers, health care systems, and jurisdictions about crisis standards of care (CSC) issues during COVID-19.Statements in this paper are often based on or buttressed by these accounts, although the authors are not able to share the specifi c details, as some of these colleagues have suff ered professional retribution for raising these issues or being willing to have open and honest discussion of the tactics that were implemented.The authors of this manuscript hope that discussion about CSC can become akin to root cause analysis and other no-fault learning environments.Until then, the authors are thankful for our colleagues' honesty and desire to clarify and improve our frameworks.