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However, there is little evidence as to how NYVAG would perform if implemented.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Objectives<\/jats:title>To evaluate the performance and potential improvement of NYVAG during a surge of patients with respect to the length of rationing, overall mortality, and worsening health disparities.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>This cohort study included intubated patients in a single health system in New York City from March through July 2020. A total of 20\u202f000 simulations were conducted of ventilator triage (10\u202f000 following NYVAG and 10\u202f000 following a proposed improved NYVAG) during a crisis period, defined as the point at which the prepandemic ventilator supply was 95% utilized.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Exposures<\/jats:title>The NYVAG protocol for triage ventilators.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>Comparison of observed survival rates with simulations of scenarios requiring NYVAG ventilator rationing.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>The total cohort included 1671 patients; of these, 674 intubated patients (mean [SD] age, 63.7 [13.8] years; 465 male [69.9%]) were included in the crisis period, with 571 (84.7%) testing positive for COVID-19. Simulated ventilator rationing occurred for 163.9 patients over 15.0 days, 44.4% (95% CI, 38.3%-50.0%) of whom would have survived if provided a ventilator while only 34.8% (95% CI, 28.5%-40.0%) of those newly intubated patients receiving a reallocated ventilator survived. While triage categorization at the time of intubation exhibited partial prognostic differentiation, 94.8% of all ventilator rationing occurred after a time trial. Within this subset, 43.1% were intubated for 7 or more days with a favorable SOFA score that had not improved. An estimated 60.6% of these patients would have survived if sustained on a ventilator. Revising triage subcategorization, proposed improved NYVAG, would have improved this alarming ventilator allocation inefficiency (25.3% [95% CI, 22.1%-28.4%] of those selected for ventilator rationing would have survived if provided a ventilator). NYVAG ventilator rationing did not exacerbate existing health disparities.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>In this cohort study of intubated patients experiencing simulated ventilator rationing during the apex of the New York City COVID-19 2020 surge, NYVAG diverted ventilators from patients with a higher chance of survival to those with a lower chance of survival. 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