Forgive me if this is a cold question; I genuinely want to understand the answer. Isn't a 90% death rate of coronavirus patients on ventilators somewhat in tension with the message that we have to do everything in our power to flatten the curve so we don't run out of ventilators?
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So we're shutting down civil society and the economy to avoid hurting doctors' feelings? Sorry, I don't see that as being a good tradeoff.
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I don't understand the purpose of this point. We already know that social distancing is a trade-off that has negative social and economic consequences. This has been known from the beginning. Also, again, it's not just about ventilator capacity.
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ICU beds, providers per patient, HFNC circuits, dialysis machines, pharmaceuticals … there’s a lot of personnel, beds, hardware, and consumables that would get overwhelmed. Standards of care appear to have evolved to intubate later and as a last resort, but the principle holds.
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