Re:Covid: Women on exercise trip 'surrounded by police'
by LatteLazy on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:53PM
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It's 5% if you do nothing, because your health care system gets overwhelmed and people who would have lived if they got a bed / ventilator / nurse etc all die.
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Re:Covid: Women on exercise trip 'surrounded by police'
by throwaway894345 on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:13PM
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Right, and to be clear, it's not just COVID patients, but other patients with treatable diseases. Notably, critically ill COVID patients require more resources: they use a bed and ventilator for longer and require more frequent assistance from nurses and other staff while they're occupying those resources. As an anecdote, my 60-year-old aunt was in the ICU for 6 weeks before a collapsed lung finally killed her.