Nurses do triage in the emergency room.

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Like a doctor in an emergency room flooded with patients, firefighters were forced to triage the fire starts. Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, "Hennessey Fire’s trail from Napa County to Vacaville," 3 Sep. 2020

But when there aren’t enough tests to go around, public health officials need to triage. Caroline Chen, ProPublica, "America Doesn’t Have a Coherent Strategy for Asymptomatic Testing. It Needs One.," 1 Sep. 2020

Firefighting officials say they have been forced to triage their work, leaving some structures to burn. Avi Asher-schapiro, The Christian Science Monitor, "Californians consider private firefighters. Is that fair?," 1 Sep. 2020

Gordon said that was likely because families who already had Internet access weren’t offered hotspots, in order to triage those with the greatest need (Howard is paying for Internet already). Conor Morris, cleveland, "Cleveland schools scramble for fix to digital divide as school starts remotely," 20 Aug. 2020

Many clinics have a nurse who will triage cases, and you will most likely be asked about travel history and symptoms. Jamie Hutt, Star Tribune, "App text formatting test," 7 Aug. 2020

In Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, which encompasses Pittsburgh and 1.2 million residents, health officials are trying to triage the demand for tests. Mike Stobbe, The Denver Post, "Reality shows shortfalls of Trump’s claim to world’s “best testing” for coronavirus," 17 July 2020

Learning how to triage acuity and severity was essential to daily success in the field, something that health care workers treating Covid-19 in some cities now do. Lakshmi Ramachandran, STAT, "A service trip to Peru offers lessons for treating Covid-19 in the U.S.," 2 May 2020

In 2015, the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law updated its voluntary guidelines on how to triage patients in the event of an influenza pandemic. Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, "'Who lives and who dies': In worst-case coronavirus scenario, ethics guide choices on who gets care," 23 Mar. 2020

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