Originally Posted by Mkiss
Intensive care is much of the difference in Europe.
I just learned from a friend who works at Roche that there are 8000 beds for intensive care in Germany compared to 1000 in Italy.

Maybe there is much of the difference in numbers. Sad to hear...


Since over 2,000 are currently in intensive care there seems to be something wrong with those figures. Some of the heros of our time are those who are working to equip wings of existing hospitals, and in at least one case a new building. as intensive care wards. In the emergency they are cutting through the usual red tape and completeing work in record time. In Milan they are equipping a building that was under construction for 400 intensive care beds to be completed in 10 days time. Respirators are on the way from China.

Just listening to a current affairs program where they are saying that the vast majority of the deaths are people over 70 years old and, of those, most with one or more existing health problems, respiratory, cardiological or other. Puts me right in it at 73 and after my heart attack a couple of years back. They think that many of the younger people who died had problems that they were unaware of. Regardless of this there are quite a few people who seem completely fit and healthy.

They are very concerned about healthy carriers who may apparently have no symptoms at all or nothing worse than an occasional cough or sneeze. For this reason they really want everyone to stay at home unless absolutely necessary. If even a small number think it is ok to go out they could contribute, unknowingly, to the spread of contagion.

Peter

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