Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
by ModernMech on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:39AM
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When the ICU is past capacity, these questions must be asked regardless. Who gets treated first and why? Unvaccinated covid patients are the ones pushing ICUs past capacity, not drivers or swimmers or soccer players or obese people. This is not a hypothetical thought experiment. Doctors are having to make these decisions right now.
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Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
by wsc981 on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:55PM
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Actually most people with COVID needing extra healthcare are obese: https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-items/2021/patients-who-ar...
Also from March 2020: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/03/coronavirus-death-toll...
> Meanwhile, Diederik Gommers, chairman of the Dutch intensive care association, told television talk show Jinek on Friday evening that 66% to 80% of corona patients on intensive care wards that he had seen are overweight.
> A specialist on the programme gave a similar picture. ‘Almost all the patients on an IC ward are overweight,’ Peter van der Voort of Groningen University’s teaching hospital said.