"They all probably could have left their patients," she said. "The fact that they stayed by the bedside of the most vulnerable patients, and in many cases hand-bagged them (supplied oxygen with a manual ventilator) for hours and hours, these were acts of remarkable courage."

"What do you do if you had no way to treat people and they were ill and there was no power and the ventilation had gone down and the machines that had kept them alive were failing?" asked [Laurie Zoloth]. "That is an astonishingly important ethical problem, given the realities we face with disaster planning."