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The ICU will never be "over capacity". At that level of occupation, there is permanent triage (oh no! bad word! the ethicists haven't written their op-eds yet!)
by stefan_ 5y ago
The ICU will never be "over capacity". At that level of occupation, there is permanent triage (oh no! bad word! the ethicists haven't written their op-eds yet!) as the "least likely to die" patients are moved out of the close observation in ICU. Make no mistake, when ICUs are full of COVID patients, it is a really bad time to be in a car crash or have any other kind of emergency.