Italy: ‘ICU Wards Are Overflowing’
March 13, 2020 [Note: The day America ‘locked down’.]
Some people, even if they have fallen over a cliff, would, on the way down, shout: “The virus must be dangerous! What else could it be?”
“People are dying! It’s got to be the virus!”
How about this? “The ICU hospital wards in Italy are overflowing. It’s the virus.”
Step back and think. THINK IT THROUGH.
Watching a recent interview with an Italian public health official, I had the impression that perhaps several thousand new ICU patients were burdening the hospital system in the northern part of the country. Several thousand out of a national population of 60 million.
Here’s the trick. Before the announcement of the coronavirus epidemic, people who showed up at those hospitals, with flu, flu-like symptoms, lung infections, pneumonia would be placed in the general wards and treated, or even sent home with drugs.
But now they would, many of them, be called “presumptive c
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