Posted on 04/21/2020 9:46:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
California...public health officials are still planning for a worst-case scenario, quietly publishing a sobering set of detailed guidelines to answer the troubling ethical question of who lives and who dies should California face a new surge in the coronavirus outbreak, resulting in a shortage of ventilators and medical supplies.
A 38-page document by the California Department of Public Health, published last weekend, prescribes a method to prioritize patients in the event that an outbreak overwhelms hospitals, preserving intensive care beds and ventilators for people with the greatest likelihood of surviving with treatment over those with serious chronic conditions that limit their life expectancy. If necessary, younger people and workers who are vital to the acute care response would receive care before others.
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This crap has been here in circulation since sometime in November. If hospitals in CA aren’t overloaded, they’re not gonna get overloaded.
Amen. It didn’t just stay in China from Nov-March before coming here one day. IMHO, they won’t be overwhelmed if you begin to open up CA tomorrow, more fear to make people scared.
How in the hell are our hospitals going to be overwhelmed we have so few cases with population of 40 million YET this POS governor wont lighten up on restrictions till May 15!!! I pray that the illegals start fleeing for their countries!!
Gotta keep stoking that fear!!
Well, the Freepers who think everyone over 50 should die should be happy.
“If”...
So useful for the media.
Are there any FReepers who are not over 50?
Quite a few, but I don’t know the percentages. I am not over 50. There are some in their 20s. There gave been teen Freepers.
I’d say that health care workers and the young should take priority, provided it’s a completely objective decision. I soubt that there wouldn’t be corruption of the system, in that I would expect that health care workers’ families would be given preferential treatment, not that their immediate families shouldn’t be given priority, but that distant relations would also be included. So I agree with the policy, generally, with the caveats listed.
LOL!
Well, any of those young whippersnappers will be dealt with!
“You kids get off my lawn! I know who your parents are!”
CREATING FOOD SHORTAGES, NEED MORE MONEY.
Oh, I understand triage; I’m a retired R.N. It’s what they do in Canada and the U.K. to save money. It would have to be a Hiroshima like event for US to ACTUALLY run out of hospital beds.
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