News from Life with (under) Covid in Norway: public health bodies introduce a new data tool, which, perhaps counter-intuitively so, points towards massive public policy failures
"...where there’s no doctor, there cannot be a diagnosis..."
R U sure?
In Queensland, Australia, you are allowed to doctor yourself:
"If you're a healthy young adult, particularly if you've been vaccinated and you have something that looks like a common cold or flu, assume it's COVID, stay at home," he said.
The numbers seem reduced for total hospitalizations, but ICUs numbers are terrible. Please remember that last 30 years of health policy has been to increase efficiency of the health system. That means that all hospital units should run close to maximum capacity, including ICUs. So if in a normal winter you are running around max capacity, 647 according to Guldvog today in VG, and you throw a couple of hundreds on top of it, people are going to start dying in droves. Whose failure is that one is left for debate. And that 647 is pulling all available resources at it, so I doubt it is even reasonable.
For a couple of anecdotes:
A friend of mine gets heart operated around April 2009 in riksen, placed in pediatric ICU because there was no room in adults ICU.
That ICU doctor in vg complaining about the heavy toll on young vulnerable person's, many dead by overdose like her son, telling that the ICU she has worked in for almost two decades is collapsed every winter.
In those conditions running fully open is a disaster.
"...where there’s no doctor, there cannot be a diagnosis..."
R U sure?
In Queensland, Australia, you are allowed to doctor yourself:
"If you're a healthy young adult, particularly if you've been vaccinated and you have something that looks like a common cold or flu, assume it's COVID, stay at home," he said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-05/covid-symptoms-stay-home-testing-queues/100738206
Well, yes and no.
The numbers seem reduced for total hospitalizations, but ICUs numbers are terrible. Please remember that last 30 years of health policy has been to increase efficiency of the health system. That means that all hospital units should run close to maximum capacity, including ICUs. So if in a normal winter you are running around max capacity, 647 according to Guldvog today in VG, and you throw a couple of hundreds on top of it, people are going to start dying in droves. Whose failure is that one is left for debate. And that 647 is pulling all available resources at it, so I doubt it is even reasonable.
For a couple of anecdotes:
A friend of mine gets heart operated around April 2009 in riksen, placed in pediatric ICU because there was no room in adults ICU.
That ICU doctor in vg complaining about the heavy toll on young vulnerable person's, many dead by overdose like her son, telling that the ICU she has worked in for almost two decades is collapsed every winter.
In those conditions running fully open is a disaster.
"After ostentatiously getting Covid. ..."
ostentatiously or ostensibly?