It's a little fishy as the Pfizer one is saying this is the data from the seriously flawed French study. Hard to know what is exactly going on, for me anyway. Always important to go to the original release, not a paraphrase of the release with a hope for the masses undertone.
https://pfe-pfizercom-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/news/ZithroComboStatement.pdf https://pfe-pfizercom-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/news/ZithroComboStatement.pdf
The UK and lots of beds, Jazz. Not sure if you were aware but the NICE committee has reviewed and changed the requirements on who goes into that bed in the first place. Only those that have good changes of survival will even go in the bed in the first place, so yes, they would have enough then. You have cancer and covid or diabetes and covid, you go to another ward to basically die. An unprecedented change and speed of a committee that usually takes a year or more to make such a change. Appreciate if anyone could confirm or deny with reference, but its dire times.
More hospitals will be taking these steps as the toll on medical staff mounts. one question no one is asking, you can make all the ventilators you want, but the staff load/tubing sets/drugs/disposables is high on a single ARDS/sepsis ventilated patient - usually 3 per. Factories don't make doctors, icu nurses, and RT's. Throw in a serious shortage of PPE for them and the numbers look really bad.
Hospitals sort of rarely have to deal with isolated patients, sometimes one or two. The PPE load is very high in an isolated room/bed. If all of a sudden your are faced with 100x the PPE requirement, no hospital can deal with that quickly. Which is why for every country its important not to overwhelm the medical system
Probably shouldn't have even mentioned this, just adding to the stress for some, apologize for that.
Edit: Jeezus, just looked at US daily cases, 3:00 in the afternoon and already 15,000.
https://pfe-pfizercom-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/news/ZithroComboStatement.pdf https://pfe-pfizercom-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/news/ZithroComboStatement.pdf
The UK and lots of beds, Jazz. Not sure if you were aware but the NICE committee has reviewed and changed the requirements on who goes into that bed in the first place. Only those that have good changes of survival will even go in the bed in the first place, so yes, they would have enough then. You have cancer and covid or diabetes and covid, you go to another ward to basically die. An unprecedented change and speed of a committee that usually takes a year or more to make such a change. Appreciate if anyone could confirm or deny with reference, but its dire times.
More hospitals will be taking these steps as the toll on medical staff mounts. one question no one is asking, you can make all the ventilators you want, but the staff load/tubing sets/drugs/disposables is high on a single ARDS/sepsis ventilated patient - usually 3 per. Factories don't make doctors, icu nurses, and RT's. Throw in a serious shortage of PPE for them and the numbers look really bad.
Hospitals sort of rarely have to deal with isolated patients, sometimes one or two. The PPE load is very high in an isolated room/bed. If all of a sudden your are faced with 100x the PPE requirement, no hospital can deal with that quickly. Which is why for every country its important not to overwhelm the medical system
Probably shouldn't have even mentioned this, just adding to the stress for some, apologize for that.
Edit: Jeezus, just looked at US daily cases, 3:00 in the afternoon and already 15,000.
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