In the Media

Prof. Parag Pathak speaks with Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics about allocating medical devices, like ventilators, during a pandemic. “Our proposal here is to think about an enhanced priority system where you take the ventilators and you split them into categories, or what we call reserves, where a fraction of reserves can have one priority order,” says Pathak. “The remaining ventilators can use another priority order.”