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> fears of hospital overrun scenarios that never materialized You sure about that? I had friends who are doctors there tell me back during the peak (~April)
by stripline 6y ago
> fears of hospital overrun scenarios that never materialized
You sure about that? I had friends who are doctors there tell me back during the peak (~April) they had run out of anesthesia and had to intubate patients without it.
- __blockcipher__ 6y agoYes, isolated cases of specific hospitals running out of certain resources is not really the overrun scenario we were warned about. Intubating without anaesthesia sounds very not-fun though. BTW New York followed a doctrine of early invasive ventilation which almost certainly caused iatrogenic harm. So perhaps an over-reliance on intubation contributed to your friends' hospital(s) running out (that's besides the point but just interesting to note)