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I can't believe they're rationing oxygen. I administered welding oxygen to my girlfriend every day for about 6 weeks when she had Covid. It's cheap, easy, and
by herdrick 6y ago
I can't believe they're rationing oxygen. I administered welding oxygen to my girlfriend every day for about 6 weeks when she had Covid. It's cheap, easy, and perfectly safe.
I assumed that when things got bad someone would just suspend the regulation requiring medical certified oxygen.
- kenhwang 6y agoFrom what I've read, its a hospital infrastructure problem, not a material shortage problem. The pipes that deliver oxygen to the machines can't deliver oxygen any faster because they're freezing up from the amount of oxygen being used.
- herdrick 6y agoYou would carry it into patients' rooms and ambulances in tanks.
- kenhwang 6y agoThere's also a shortage of said tanks. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/oxygen-supply-shortages-bedevil-hospitals-already-overwhelmed-by-covid-19-patients https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/oxygen-s...
- herdrick 6y agoWelding tanks are different, and not in shortage.
- philjohn 6y agoThat struck me as odd as well, although, there could indeed be a shortage. In UK hospitals it's not so much that there's a shortage, but the oxygen distribution network/lines in hospitals aren't sized for the number of patients requiring it.