TheDarkKnight
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Where exactly are you seeing all these thousands on ventilators?
USA:
"In the past 24 hours, COVID-19 claimed an additional 188 lives in New York, bringing the total deaths to 1,562 as of 5PM ET on Thursday. The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection is nearing 50,000, as 4,000 more patients were added to the tally. According to city hall data, approximately 21% of these cases, or around 10,590 patients, need hospital care."
"According to health experts, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in New York City, as updated regularly by city hall, does not represent the actual number. They say the actual number of cases may be higher as the data provided by authorities are those of laboratory-tested and confirmed cases of coronavirus infection."
https://www.ibtimes.com/new-york-ci...virus-deaths-1562-more-10000-patients-2952126
In just one 24-hour period this week, at least 13 patients were reported to have died at the hospital, where the medical examiner’s office has stationed a refrigerated trailer to act as a makeshift morgue. Officials have described the hospital as “overwhelmed”, “overrun” and calling out for one thing: “Help.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/27/new-york-coronavirus-elmhurst-hospital
""People are dying from the coronavirus, hospitals are out of beds, and the medical staff are overwhelmed," Franklin Graham, the president of Samaritan's Purse, is quoted as saying on the group's website. "We are deploying our Emergency Field Hospital to New York to help carry this burden. This is what Samaritan's Purse does — we respond in the middle of crises to help people in Jesus' Name. Please pray for our teams and for everyone around the world affected by the virus."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-central-park-ny-field-hospital-covid-19/
About Ventilators:
New York state has 2,200 ventilators in its stockpile, enough for about six days at the "current burn rate" during the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. The state is still looking to acquire more ventilators.
"The burn rate of ventilators is troubling, and six days of ventilators in the stockpile is troubling," he said, but added, "we have all these extra measures that I believe if push comes to shove will put us in fairly good shape."
He said the measures include transporting ventilators from hospitals that don't need them at the moment to others that do, using anesthesia machines as ventilators, splitting one ventilator between two patients and converting BiPAP machines into ventilators.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-cuomo-new-york-ventilators-coronavirus-update-covid-19/
Ventilators are only seen to be needed in worse cases, but even those numbers are running low for hospitals.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/308360-how-new-york-split-double-ventilators-covid-19
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...emic-spreads-will-there-be-enough-ventilators
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...ed-number-ventilators-if-coronavirus-n1161896
China:https://www.npr.org/sections/health...emic-spreads-will-there-be-enough-ventilators
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/heal...ed-number-ventilators-if-coronavirus-n1161896
I dont need to find a source for this but China actually quarantined millions of people in Wuhan province for more than a month and contained the virus. They have reported thousands of deaths. (please don't ask me to show you where was the quarantine!)
Not every country and region is impacted the same. There are many factors that we still dont understand. I dont really trust Pakistan's numbers but even if we are doing well it may be because of a younger demographic and environmental factorsMy doctor friends in UK are not seeing any mass CoV patients on ventilators. And doctor friends in Pakistan are also not reporting any mass CoV patients on ventilators.
Italy says 99% deaths were of those already in critical stages of other diseases.
It is correct and it has been reported by CDC and WHO that elderly and people with underlying conditions are more at risk - but that doesnt mean their lives are expendable? Would you say the same bout your parents or grandparents?
UK:
I am not following UK as closely but they are building field hospitals:
https://news.yahoo.com/4-000-bed-coronavirus-field-hospital-opens-london-114554051.html
Ask them why your tax money is being wasted - let all the old people die?
I am not following UK as closely but they are building field hospitals:
https://news.yahoo.com/4-000-bed-coronavirus-field-hospital-opens-london-114554051.html
Ask them why your tax money is being wasted - let all the old people die?
You dont know what you are talking about at all. People should take word of medical professions and experts rather than your half baked theories with no evidence, data or research.Give seasonal flu infection to someone already critical and under treatment.
Considering so many infected, untested and already recovered, actual death rate may not be much different than seasonal flu that kills a few hundred thousand globally every year!
We need to look at actual deaths and exclude all those already in critical conditions prior.
Even if it is just another flu: that means we have two flus (sources of illness and deaths) now - and we dont have a vaccine for it. Mind you we have been dealing with flu for a long time and have been able to produce vaccines to control illness.
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