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Well, most direct deaths show fairly fast after the patient has died. There are some indirect damages that might kill someone 70 years on but we don't know that
by zaarn 6y ago
Well, most direct deaths show fairly fast after the patient has died. There are some indirect damages that might kill someone 70 years on but we don't know that yet.
The issue isn't how long it takes "for death to show up", it's that patients who are infected don't drop dead on the spot. They develop symptoms, go to a doctor, get bad enough to be forced in to a hospital, treatment stops helping until eventually the succumb to the condition. That can take a while, especially if doctors are fighting for the patients life.
And yes, sometimes hospitals can be overwhelmed by single events, though in the US this seems to be an issue of lack of social healthcare than anything, but generally there isn't a single disease that puts hospitals into a state of triage (that is until Covid when hospitals in various places in the world did have to triage)
- matz1 6y agoYes, all disease could have delayed death/long lasting permanent damage. And in regard with hospital overwhelmed, its nothing new, this is from 2018, hospital have to setup triage tents: https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patients/ https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
- yesplorer 6y agoTriage tents don't fall from the sky. They require extensive planning and logistics. And sometimes you build them and they go unused as has been done during this very pandemic because luckily predictions were wrong.[0] [0] https://www.militarytimes.com/news/coronavirus/2020/04/29/many-field-hospitals-went-largely-unused-will-be-shut-down/ https://www.militarytimes.com/news/coronavirus/2020/04/29/ma...
- matz1 6y agoUm yes, i didn't argue that it shows up magically.
- zaarn 6y agoTriage tent != Triage. A triage tent is used to sort patients between codes, ie emergencies and non-emergencies when space inside the hospital is unavailable. Actual triage means when the hospital itself rejects patients because they do not have the resources to treat everyone anymore. From what it reads in the article, the hospitals weren't unable to treat patients on that level yet. >Yes, all disease could have delayed death/long lasting permanent damage. And we don't know what Covid-19 brings but that isn't even the point so I'm wondering why you brought it up anyway.
- matz1 6y agoI'm responding to the hospital being overwhelmed, not specifically about the tent. My point is at the current situation the hospital is no more overwhelmed then what has happened in the past. >And we don't know what Covid-19 brings Yes but we can learn from previous similar virus in the past and decision to lockdown should not be taken lightly. Unless this virus has death rate of ebola then there should not be lockdown.
- zaarn 6y agoWell, the standard influence virus that causes the flu isn't that similar, it's from a different family of viruses. The only similar virus that has some medical history is SARS.