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It's 5% if you do nothing, because your health care system gets overwhelmed and people who would have lived if they got a bed / ventilator / nurse etc all die.
by LatteLazy 6y ago
It's 5% if you do nothing, because your health care system gets overwhelmed and people who would have lived if they got a bed / ventilator / nurse etc all die.
- throwaway894345 6y agoRight, and to be clear, it's not just COVID patients, but other patients with treatable diseases. Notably, critically ill COVID patients require more resources: they use a bed and ventilator for longer and require more frequent assistance from nurses and other staff while they're occupying those resources. As an anecdote, my 60-year-old aunt was in the ICU for 6 weeks before a collapsed lung finally killed her.