www.bigfooty.com
www.abc.net.au
Seems like mass hysteria is easier to catch than covid-19.
If its TLDR
Basically lots of sick people, maybe not enough doctors/nurses or ICU beds.
and young healthy people starting to get it now too.
‘Get ready’: Italian doctors warn Europe of coronavirus impact on hospitals
Italian doctors have warned medics across Europe to “get ready” for coronavirus in a letter revealing up to 10 per cent of all those infected with coronavirus need intensive care, with hospitals becoming overwhelmed.
They said Italian hospitals had seen “a very high” number of intensive care patients who were admitted “almost entirely” for severe lung failure caused by the virus and needing ventilators to help them breathe.
They added: “Increase your total ICU capacity. Identify early hospitals that can manage the initial surge in a safe way.
Get ready to prepare ICU areas where to cohort Covid-19 patients – in every hospital if necessary.”
The NHS will struggle to cope in the event of a sustained coronavirus outbreak where large numbers of patients require intensive care.
The UK’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty has said critical care units may struggle.
Latest figures show NHS intensive care units were running at around 80 per cent capacity at the start of March.
I wonder what Australias is ????
“It will be tough.
It’s going to be hard.
My worry is staffing.
If a lot of doctors and nurses become sick that will be the crunch.
If a third of staff are self-isolating that is the time when we stop being able to cope.”
If that happens we won’t have the capacity for patients who need urgent surgery for appendicitis, blood clots etc and that’s when patients will start getting worse care as a result. These are the people who will die unnecessarily.
In an alarming development, Dr Nattino said younger patients were being affected, saying the ages of patients ranged from 46 to 83 with only a small number having important underlying conditions.
He added: “The last days are showing a younger population involved as if the elderly and weaker part of the population crashed early and now younger patients, having exhausted their physiological reserves, come to overcrowded, overwhelmed hospitals with little resources left.”
“The inflammation in their lungs carries on for a long time.
Patients need strong drugs in high doses to maintain their blood pressure.
Kidney failure requiring a kidney machine is common and the patients later in their stay are starting to have blood tests showing liver damage.”
‘Get ready’: Italian doctors warn Europe of coronavirus impact on hospitals
‘It will be tough’, British doctor admits after Italian experts warn one in 10 of those infected need intensive carewww.independent.co.uk
It is worrying , and frustrating. If only China and Iran had handled it better and more honestly, we might have not been affected at all in Australia.
Coronavirus-infected GP hits back after criticism from Victorian Health Minister
A GP who tested positive for the coronavirus after treating dozens of patients lashes out at Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos who was "flabbergasted" he returned to work.
Ferrari comes from Modena in Italy and they have been locked down
www.theguardian.com
Why, she didn’t name him. It could’ve public from any 1 of the 70 odd patients contacted that he treated while infectious, or any number of other sources.
We are good at empathy when other people have been dealt a bad hand, we just arent willing to share our rations in a dog eat dog survivor challenge
But the ticket was NON-refundable!
Like KFC?
