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by edgecrafter 2287 days ago
I hope you haven't read the reports from the medical frontline in Lombardie - They are making life or death choices now due to influx of ICU patient without enough equipment and medical staff exhausted and starting to get sick themselves

One frontline story among many here https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714289107769753...

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Triage, i.e. if you show up and have any condition that reduces your chances of survival you are not treated at all. Palliative care only.
Also the government, despite sounding enlightened and getting most of the praise of the press, is locking everyone up with exceptional measures, but still goes the bureaucratic way to procure respirators (which are essential in the current emergency, and they are needed now, not in the two weeks required for the lockdown to show any effect) and masks (either useless because not certified for medical use, or stuck in a warehouse due to "missing authorizations").

At this point my region (Lombardia) appointed someone with the sole task of getting an emergency hospital up in Milano to house more patients, doing whatever it takes. Hopefully this will help.