Re:Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photoj...
by inglor_cz on Sunday December 26, 2021 @04:38PM
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I am not an antivaxxer, but 0.2 per cent is 2 per thousand, and 100 per cent of the population won't get covid at the same time, even if the entire population was naive to the virus.
The worst problem with covid is probably not the raw death rate, but that the ICU patients often take weeks to either improve or die.
ICUs are not designed for long stays; prior to covid, median ICU stay was fairly short (I found a figure of 2 days and mean of 3.4 days [0]). But for example, my GP, who died of covid in early 2020, stayed on life support for six weeks before his body finally gave up.
The worst problem with covid is probably not the raw death rate, but that the ICU patients often take weeks to either improve or die.
ICUs are not designed for long stays; prior to covid, median ICU stay was fairly short (I found a figure of 2 days and mean of 3.4 days [0]). But for example, my GP, who died of covid in early 2020, stayed on life support for six weeks before his body finally gave up.
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4792682/