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The threat of collapsing healthcare system is really hard to estimate. Most of our treatment options are not especially effective against the disease. In the ev
by klmadfejno 6y ago
The threat of collapsing healthcare system is really hard to estimate. Most of our treatment options are not especially effective against the disease. In the event that triaging needs to occur, you don't cause that many extra deaths by triaging those with the highest risk of dying, given treatment.
Spain may have reduced deaths in the short term, but there's no particular reason it hasn't just spread them over a longer period of time. You can't eradicate this disease permanently without closing your borders permanently.
- rumanator 6y ago> The threat of collapsing healthcare system is really hard to estimate. You don't need to estimate, you only need to look at the facts. In Spain the covid outbreak forced them to comandeer hotels to serve as intensive care units and even then they were compelled to open an emergency hospital in Madrid with capacity for 5000 patients just to be able to admit covid19 patients requiring immediate medical care. And that alone was just to alleviate their healthcare system.
- klmadfejno 6y agoThat's not the point I'm making. You're saying Spain ran out of hospital capacity. I'm asking, did it actually increase mortality rates?