Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[EnricoPallazzo]

JRPGfan said:

Arizona will have triage panels soon (early-mid july), to decide who gets care or not in hospitals.

"soon the only option might be "crisis levels of care"" - Will Humble (former director of arizona's department of health)

What does that mean? Well :

"If your in a bed, normally they'll keep you for a few days, but now they're going to send you home with oxygen" - Will Humble

Basically, they ll check your symptoms, and give you a gas tank full of air, send you home, and prey you make it.
Naturally this isn't as safe as being in a hospital hooked up to systems that monitor your health, and doctors come running if things get bad.


The triage thing, basically means if you have a co-factor, or are old, they wont bother to treat you, and instead spend their efforts on younger people that have a better chance of makeing it.  Dont be old and get sick... it kills you.

That happened here in uk for a few weeks, its really scary, but inevitable.

This is what most people dont get about this virus, specially in countries with limited number of beds.

The death rate might be very low, but when you apply it to hundreds of million of people at the same time, you have chaos.