[dowcaet]

Wanna bet some of these heart attack victims who pass away will be counted as victims of Wuhan Flu. We will never get a true number from NYC. If anything, Governor Ventilator and Mayor DeLousyo and their hapless medical officials will inflate the number of virus victims!

[JonPreston]

Statistically, this will largely affect men. Will females with complications related to breast cancer be next?

Nah...

[WakeUpAndVote]

Mass transit kills.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

This is the old ‘throw the extra people out of the lifeboat to drown’ concept and it is wrong. They should try to save everybody.

[EinNYC]

Oh my dear G-d. How absolutely horrible.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

WuHu seems to be a preferred disease.

[mmichaels1970]

Allowing people to die so that people don’t die. What a mess.

[ontap]

So the life of an Corid-19 victim is more valuable than a heart attack victim....or am I not understanding this order!!!

[Sacajaweau]

If you can’t revive them, they’re dead. Call the ME...

[Jim Noble]

Outpatients found dead who do not respond to CPR in the field have an essentially zero intact survival after transport, I have always found this ritual in ERs to be disrespectful to the dead and to their loved ones.

[Captain Walker]

What was the point in bringing that big white battleship into New York?

[mmichaels1970]

How about using the Defense Production Act to nationalize all abortion facilities and turn them into emergency cardiac treatment wards? We can put a few cardiologists in each one and transfer people there.

[RinaseaofDs]

Source is NBC. They are not a reliable news source. This is a rumor until verified.

[rightwingcrazy]

Trump sent a big hospital ship to them. Are they using it?

[Hot Tabasco]

Gotta go to the article and read it all the way thru. Here's the last paragraph:

n response to the new mandate, the FDNY has issued an order to all its EMTs with additional guidelines. According to the order, which a senior FDNY official shared with NBC News, the mandate applies only to adult patients. If an adult patient has obvious signs of death like rigor or has a do not resuscitate order, EMTs will not try to revive the patient.

[decal]

From a stand-up comedian (whose name escapes me):

How does a New Yorker give CPR?

[standing over the MI victim]: “GET UP BEFORE YOU FREAKIN’ DIE!!”

Well, it used to be funny...

[Savage Beast]

Hey maybe they could pick out the people who are likely to have a cardiac arrest and pre-emptively make them comfortably but give no supportive care...

[stanne]

“Emergency officials tell NBC News the measure will alleviate an influx of patients from going to the hospitals that have no hope of being saved.”

Did anyone read the article?

These are always BS cases for the ER. Waste of time and resources. Now in addition, they would increase risk of exposure to this virus for all concerned. So. No. Don’t bring dead people to the ER. Sorry.

[Pajamajan]

Weird.

[cherry]

IIRC, the chances of surviving a cardiac arrest are dismal from the start...like 10% survival rate...