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Hard to make this decisions in smaller contacts when you are potentially endanger real patients needing care right now Vs future "less dead" estimations.
by Jommi 7y ago
Hard to make this decisions in smaller contacts when you are potentially endanger real patients needing care right now Vs future "less dead" estimations.
- ImprovedSilence 7y agoAt this point do we even need to test most of the serious cases. if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, coughs like a duck, it's a duck. Didn't China start counting cases based on CT scans at one point too?
- ironic_ali 7y agoChina is not forthcoming with the truth, at all.
- gitgudnubs 7y agoHealth systems deal with scarcity on a daily basis. There's no room for the emotional hand-wringing you're describing. Moving scarce resources from diagnosis patients to studying the population during a pandemic will be one event in a causal chain that results in deaths. It also prevents the outbreak from spreading beyond control. Several orders of magnitude more people have been killed by uninformed policy than would have been killed by redirecting a portion of tests. What kind of MONSTER chooses for so many more people to die?!?