Saw pretty disturbing message from friend who is a senior ophthalmologist in the UK.
"800 ICU beds and we need 4000. The GPs are closed only Skype phone calls. We are doing emergencies but busy trying to cancel 2000 patients a day we see. 1/many
"800 ICU beds and we need 4000. The GPs are closed only Skype phone calls. We are doing emergencies but busy trying to cancel 2000 patients a day we see. 1/many
We have 22 anesthetic machines that can be used as respirators we will lose those and then anaesthetists. The anaesthetists were being mutineers yesterday refusing to do any general anaesthetic as it is higher risk. It is chaos.
In Scotland they are redeploying the ophthalmologists to the front line. In Italy they are turning eye hospitals into covid hospitals. Plus we are up close and personal, a lot of ophthalmologists and ENT have died. Dentists are a high risk too.
ENT consultant in Leicester died yesterday from it. The ICUs are filling up. They have moved non covid patients to new wards of ITU. Plus there isn't enough protective clothing. I just read the recommendations from imperial to the government.
The difference between mitigation and suppression. They predict that the ICU beds will be full by the 1st week of April. Of those admitted to hospital 30% will require ICU and minimum it will be 18 months like this until a vaccine is produced. Minimum in UK is 500000 deaths.
It will happen in Australia too. Like a domino effect. It is not just the oldies. In Italy, they are swamped by the oldies but the ICU beds are going to 40 year olds. Italy are now at 31000 and over 300 deaths per day over the last few days. Mass graves.
The whistle blower Dr Wen Liang in Wuhan got it from asymptomatic patients with glaucoma. He died a month later at 33 years old, 3 of his colleagues in the same clinic died too.
