Posted on 03/11/2020 12:22:35 PM PDT by amorphous
Doctors in northern Italy struggling with the explosion of COVID-19 cases are warning their hospitals are on the brink of collapse and telling other countries to prepare for a fierce battle.
At the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Europe, the sudden surge to more than 10,000 cases in the region in just three weeks has overwhelmed intensive care units, with a shortage of beds and staff and ventilators potentially pushing the death toll higher.
The overflow means patients are being treated in operating rooms, hospital corridors, or recovery rooms. Only a small portion of patients are being housed in negative-pressure isolation rooms, designed to stop airborne contaminants from infecting healthcare workers. Doctors are being forced to make tough decisions on which patients will get ventilation machines or respirators.
He concluded by saying he questioned the prevailing message not to panic about the virus.
“I understand the need not to panic, but when the message of the danger of what is happening does not reach people… I shiver,” he wrote.
“We must spread the word to prevent what is happening here from happening all over Italy.”
LETS JUST KEEP THOSE FLIGHTS LANDING
Does the virus eat away at the pillars in the foundations?
What is Italy going to look like after this is over.
It is getting decimated.
Maybe they can use all those Chinese temporary hospitals they say they no longer need.
Yes it’s all over. Go out and scream in the streets.
And if this doesn’t get us we only have 10+ years left, so its only a matter of time.
More room for refugees from Libya.
“What is Italy going to look like after this is over.”
Middle Eastern and African. They already have the very lowest birth rate in Europe-I believe it is actually a negative birth rate.
What is Italy going to look like after this is over.
I think the entire EU is in deep trouble
the deaths in Spain and France are increasing and cases are exploding in other areas
I wish people would report cases per million people rather then just raw totals per country
Jake Tapper
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The president of the medical guild of the northern Italian region of Varese, Roberto Stella, 67, died Tuesday night in Como, where he was hospitalized for respiratory failure due to the coronavirus, the state-run ANSA news agency reports.
— CNN’s Helena de Moura
I think Italy is about the same size as my state of California, or twice as big as Florida.
I suspect most the population is found in a few concentrated areas. If COVID-19 persists, Italy may need to shift a lot of citizens to outer, less developed areas.
Hopefully, they’ll get help from the EU.
Italy was already under stress from the unwanted refugees they were forced to take in.
I think this is a gross misdirection. Full hospitals are high earning hospitals. They might not be functioning as desired, but collapse is the least of their troubles.
You and I are way too much alike. Remember, rust never sleeps.
There are 180,000 beds hospital beds in Italy.
12,000 cases, let’s say all require hospitalization, which is an overestimate.
If the hospitals are at full capacity without the virus that means about a 7% increase in needed beds.
And this is localized, not distributed throughout all Italy which increases the temporary need for more beds.
Italy’s Single payor government system collapses? Maybe they should try private hospital care.
“What is Italy going to look like after this is over.
It is getting decimated.”
0.02% of Italy’s population have the infection.
Hardly decimation.
Way more die of cancer.
And way more children are born.
Let’s not lose reason and perspective.
It’s a bad situation but it’s a minimal fraction of the population.
Good old Italy.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/italy-estimates-4000-heat-deaths/
SEPTEMBER 11, 2003 / 9:51 AM / AP
The heat wave that scorched Europe this summer may be to blame in the deaths of more than 4,000 elderly Italians, the Health Ministry said Thursday, offering its first official figures related to the searing temperatures.
The ministry said 34,071 people over the age of 65 died during the period of July 16 to Aug. 15, the height of the heat wave. That’s 4,175 more than the same time last year.
Officials from the ministry’s Superior Health Institute, which compiled the figures, said more study was needed to determine if the deaths could be blamed entirely on the heat. But they stressed that the weather clearly played a role.
I assume vice.com is also associated with the cable TV station called “vice” as well.
They seem to be some newly funded, multi-media, leftist propaganda outlet.
Decimation is not quantified nor evaluated just on a percentage of death.
Or have you missed the completely EMPTY tourist attractions.
People who are not rich who depend on that money to live.
Italy is getting decimated...from hospitals..to it’s people..to it’s livelihood
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