1/. 2 doctors, Milan
Dr Martina Crivellari, an intensive care cardiac anaesthesiologist at the San Raffaele Hospital
“There are a lot of young people in our Intensive Care Units (ICUs) - our youngest is a 38-year-old who had had no comorbidities (underlying health problems).”
Dr Martina Crivellari, an intensive care cardiac anaesthesiologist at the San Raffaele Hospital
“There are a lot of young people in our Intensive Care Units (ICUs) - our youngest is a 38-year-old who had had no comorbidities (underlying health problems).”
2/. "They've told us that starting from now we'll have to choose who to intubate - priority will go to the young or those without comorbidities.
"At Niguarda, the other big hospital in Milan, they are not intubating anyone over 60, which is really, really young."
"At Niguarda, the other big hospital in Milan, they are not intubating anyone over 60, which is really, really young."
3/. This virus is so infectious that the only way to avoid a 'massacre' is to have the least number possible getting infected over the longest possible timescale.
4/ "Right now, if we get 10k people in Italy in need of ventilators - when we only have 3k in the country - 7k people will die.
Rome right now is like where Milan was 10 days ago
In 10 days there has been an incredible escalation.”
How many ventilators in my local hospital?UK?
Rome right now is like where Milan was 10 days ago
In 10 days there has been an incredible escalation.”
How many ventilators in my local hospital?UK?
5/. "We've had no critical cases among children but with children, viruses are much less aggressive - think chickenpox or measles.
"But the very young are crazy carriers...
"But the very young are crazy carriers...
6/. "A child with no symptoms will go to visit its grandparents, and basically kill them. So it’s essential to avoid contact between them".
I suspect this is one of the reasons behind not shutting schools.
Whichever decision you make is going to have a marked downside.
I suspect this is one of the reasons behind not shutting schools.
Whichever decision you make is going to have a marked downside.
7/ A male doctor who we have so far not been able to identify, except that he works at Niguarda Hospital in Milan, one of the biggest in the city where people over 60 not being intubated.
That would be me a goner.
That would be me a goner.
8/. “ You have no idea how many young people are here, I mean even 20-year-olds with no underlying conditions, in need of assisted breathing because of horrible pneumonia.”
9/. “There aren’t the resources to screen doctors for Covid-19 anymore - they’re just telling them 'stay home if you have symptoms, otherwise come to work'."
10/. “He continued: "Non-specialised medical graduates are being brought in.
"At Milan’s Policlinico hospital they are dealing with 50 new pneumonia cases every day".
How do the poor staff recover from a brutal soul destroying experience like this?
"At Milan’s Policlinico hospital they are dealing with 50 new pneumonia cases every day".
How do the poor staff recover from a brutal soul destroying experience like this?
