Economists Address COVID-19 Equipment Shortage

Economics Professors Tayfun Sönmez, Utku Ünver, and Associate Professor Bumin Yenmez, along with a colleague from MIT, have devised a matching mechanism to improve the rationing of ventilators and other critical medical equipment during the pandemic. BC News | Their market design approach is highlighted by a Harvard economist writing for Bloomberg Opinion. Their triage design paper, "Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing," is also referenced in Yahoo!finance, MITNews.