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As a standard, the UK makes medical decisions based on QALYs saved (quality-adjusted life years). Although you can argue that keeping hospital beds free saves
by throwaway2245 6y ago
As a standard, the UK makes medical decisions based on QALYs saved (quality-adjusted life years).
Although you can argue that keeping hospital beds free saves a lot of QALYs, it's harder to argue that care homes have a lot of QALYs to save.
And, it's not obvious that care home patients are the first to occupy hospital beds (I'm unsure about it); care home patients with COVID have tended to die in their care home.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y ago> it's harder to argue that care homes have a lot of QALYs to save. Not true at all. They may have fewer life years left, but they're orders of magnitude more likely to die from Covid, so preventing a Covid case in this population actually saves more QALYs than preventing a case in a younger healthy person, statistically speaking.