My conscience compels me to sound like a crank and say that minimizing *overall* virus spread was never a remotely justifiable policy. It led to cruel policies like prohibiting family and overly invasive care, as well as postponing urgent non-covid care.
wsj.com/articles/hospi…
wsj.com/articles/hospi…
I've been aghast since March, and it's still going on. There is no possible justification for some of these tradeoffs, and they still can't admit fallibility. The virus is dangerous to hospital patients, and it would seem the solution to that is separate facilities and staff.
They (I assume hospital execs, intimidated by the fantasies of the media and some public health authorities) tossed all tradeoffs and common sense out the window, and put doctors in a terrible position. Telling quotes from doctors have been scattered in the press all along.
Doctors repeatedly told journalists that containment was unrealistic. Also, "sedation increases risk for delirium...and delirium increases the likelihood of long-term confusion..." This may be one factor in "long covid."
The point being that it is not clear that getting covid is more risky, for most people, than being sedated and intubated unnecessarily. Doing that to minimize covid cases is only justifiable if there is no way to separate uninfected high-risk patients.
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