Paramedics in much of the country do not transport cardiac arrest patient for whom circulation (return of spontaneous circulation) has not been reestablished.

Transporting a pulse less body after 20+ minutes of CPR, intubation, of fluids and advanced cardiac life support medications (epinephrine, amiodarone, etc) is statistically pointless.

This is the situation in normal cases, much less ground zero of a pandemic. Paramedics perform the same skills with the same algorithms that are performed in hospitals

Rapid transportation of a patient for whom resuscitation has failed just delays the moment of reckoning for the family.

Sad but true.

The majority of cardiac arrests to which I response remain on scene after resuscitation.