Re:U.S. field hospitals stand down, most without treating an...
by DiogenesKynikos on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:10AM
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Collapsed as in:
* Not enough doctors, nurses, beds and medical supplies to treat all (or even most of) the patients.
* Extremely stark triage decisions. Deciding not to treat patients who would normally be treatable, instead leaving them to die.
* Doctors and nurses working to the limit of exhaustion.
* Normal care essentially stopping. All medical resources being focused on one disease.
* Morgues unable to handle the number of dead.
Finally, double the regular number of flu deaths occurred in just a few weeks, and that was with extreme social distancing measures. Without those measures, the death toll would have been far higher.
You're describing this as some sort of mass hallucination. I don't see how that's a defensible position.
* Not enough doctors, nurses, beds and medical supplies to treat all (or even most of) the patients.
* Extremely stark triage decisions. Deciding not to treat patients who would normally be treatable, instead leaving them to die.
* Doctors and nurses working to the limit of exhaustion.
* Normal care essentially stopping. All medical resources being focused on one disease.
* Morgues unable to handle the number of dead.
Finally, double the regular number of flu deaths occurred in just a few weeks, and that was with extreme social distancing measures. Without those measures, the death toll would have been far higher.
You're describing this as some sort of mass hallucination. I don't see how that's a defensible position.