Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse

Re:Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photoj... by tzs on Sunday December 26, 2021 @05:52PM (#29697151)

Speeders and drunk drivers don't overwhelm hospital capacity because there aren't enough of them, and the injuries they cause are usually physical trauma that usual doesn't require as much resources to treat as does COVID.

Obese people don't overwhelm hospital capacity because it is highly variable how long it takes for obesity to result in something that puts you in the hospital. Moderately obese people lose on average about 3 years of life. As far as hospital capacity goes the impact is that the people handling long term capacity planning have to change their forecasts to call for a little more capacity a little sooner.

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Re:Intimate portraits of a hospital Covid unit from a photoj... by paulpauper on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:10PM (#29697264)

It's surprising it's only 3 years, and that is for men. For women it's even less. Most people if surveyed would guess figures like 10 years or more, but as it turns out, obesity just is not as big of a killer as the media hype would have one believe.

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