I think pediatricians are jaded and don’t understand how miraculous pediatric hospital care really is. If they did they would be fighting harder to protect their hospitals.
I trained in med/peds, which means I did a combined residency in both internal medicine and pediatrics.
I am board certified in both pediatrics and internal medicine.
By and large, a large share of patients treated at adult hospitals have a limited lifespan as a result of age or severity of disease.
This isn’t the case in pediatric hospitals.
This is why I keep screaming from rooftops about flattening the pediatric covid curve.
We need to preserve our pediatric hospitals’ ability to care for EVERY child that needs care.
As I read that 1 in 500 Americans have died of COVID19 so far, I decided to cheer myself up by reading a quasi-historical account about everyday life during the time of the Black Death, which killed 30-50% of the population.
Amazing how people knew it was coming. Travelers and gossip brought news of it to even small villages. People had a hard time believing that it would actually be as bad as it was.
There is still debate on whether the Black Death was actually caused by the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis or instead one of the epidemic hemorrhagic viruses like Ebola. There are some pretty good arguments for Ebola here. nature.com/scitable/blog/…