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Sweden’s hospitals hasn’t been besieged in the way seen in Italy, though, so I’m not sure that is true either. https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/corona-i-inte
by oxymoron 6y ago
Sweden’s hospitals hasn’t been besieged in the way seen in Italy, though, so I’m not sure that is true either. https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/corona-i-intensivvarden/ https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/corona-i-intensivvarden/
- glangdale 6y agoThere were a few articles that went by that indicated that they were being pretty cold-blooded in terms of triaging older people away from ICUs and ventilators. This isn't totally unreasonable, but it is weird from a "try to save everyone" perspective and does raise some awkward questions about their rather premature victory lap - "our ICUs aren't overloaded therefore we're OK".
- legopelle 6y agoVentilators are extremely intensive treatment.i It's forced breathing. If you're old and frail, it will kill you.
- oxymoron 6y agoThe picture here is unclear. Public news interviewed several dozen doctors across hospitals in Stockholm. Some of them had the impression that they were preemptively turning patients away from intensive care units, but a substantial fraction of doctors also said that these are patients that wouldn’t have been put there under normal circumstances either. I think the truth is somewhere inbetween, but it’s clear that there hasn’t been the deluge of severe cases observed out of southern Europe.