Posted on 03/12/2020 1:17:57 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi
Health officials in Italy have issued guidelines for rationing care as hospitals there struggle to keep up with the surge of patients infected with the coronavirus.
Doctors are being told that they'll likely need to deny care to senior citizens and those with other health conditions as the virus explodes across the nation. Italy has been rocked by the still not-well-understood COVID-29, with more than 1,200 confirmed cases and 827 deaths—second only to China—and 16 million residents currently under quarantine.
An article published by the Italian College of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (translated here by Yascha Mounk) warns that "It may be necessary to establish criteria of access to intensive care not just on the basis of clinical appropriateness but inspired by the most consensual criteria regarding distributive justice and the appropriate allocation of limited health resources." The report goes on to recommend rationing care to certain populations.
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Italian Death Panels!
Social Security, too.
Call Bernie he’s got the Cuban heath care system down
Those numbers are hours old. These numbers are at least minutes old.
Coronavirus crisis: ‘Europe is the new China’
nine.com.au
By 9News Staff
7:38am Mar 13, 2020
https://www.9news.com.au/world/coronavirus-latest-europe-new-china-italy-death-toll-rises/564cf745-bd38-4717-b60c-451cccccb8e1
“Italy’s positive cases continued their upward trend, registering 15,113 confirmed cases and the death toll hit 1016.”
I thought it was 99% elderly that get it. So I guess reality is poor elderly will die while rich ones live.
The most likely to suffer the worst.
Dems are rejoicing.
bkmk
but i think in battle they always treat the sickest first right?
Nope. They treat those who they think can survive.
If you are so wounded death is likely, you get marked “expectant”, and maybe get some morphine if available.
In the military, it’s called “Triage”.
I think that’s Italian for,
“We’re gonna be working on the General so here’s a couple of aspirins.”
Out with the old, in with the new. Communism at its apex. Humanity is a chattel to be treated like any other piece of worn out personal property. Throw it in the trash bin and get on with the eternal quest to achieve nirvana.
Again, I’m not clear that this virus is really different from the symptoms and duration of a tough flu.
Thus, do young fit people really need medical assistance?
Not really. If a patient is expected to die they receive minimal, or no treatment.
Then there is a balancing between chances of success and amount of treatment necessary. If you could survive but would take a lot of care, they may have to ration that care to those who will each take less, but in aggregate will take up all of the care available.
It sucks to be old.
But that is my whole point. Why is it that COVID gets A#1 priority? Besides being “new”?
I’m not seeing the dire consequences overall, so why should they be prioritized over other true emergencies of immediate danger?
And in socialist “healthcare” countries...
When there the ICU is filled with CV19 patients, people are dying at home with it, and your entire staff is working on keeping a few of the cases alive while fighting the virus themselves, no one has resources for anything else.
Kind of like when there is a pile up on the interstate. the local ERs stop accepting anyone until the causalities are cleared.
What would you suggest? Keep some doctors in isolation to take care of broken bones while CV19 patients crash?
What an elegant way of putting it.
I guess it was too hard to say DEATH PANELS.
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