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Re:First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK by nobrains on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @06:32AM (#25343992)
No, you do, because no matter the age, the family members still want to have a chance of survival of their loved one. My distant relative (70 year old) was in ICU for 30 days, and on ventilator for 14 days. Yes, that is a very long time for ventilator usage, and every day more on a ventilator increases the death rate probability percentage.
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Re:First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK by oxfordmale on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @06:33AM (#25344005)
At the age of 90, your lungs are too fragile to be put on a ventilator. It was one of the reasons academics overestimated the number of ventilators required for COVID.
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Re:First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK by exdsq on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @06:38AM (#25344047)
This isn't a hard-set rule, just an extra factor in triage

Edit: Do you work at the JR by any chance? Asking as another Oxford Male based nearby!

https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/60/1/129/...

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Re:First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK by KaiserPro on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:42AM (#25344401)
its really not that simple, it turned out that the stats we were working from were wrong (well done china...) but also ventilators are not great for covid patients. Its much better to slap them with oxygen.
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Re:First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK by lagadu on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @06:37AM (#25344035)
Too fragile for a ventilator but not too fragile for ecmo.
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