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OT : The Coronavirus. Has it reached you yet? How are you? Apr 21, 2020 17:21:19 GMT

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Post by bluerisk on Apr 21, 2020 17:21:19 GMT

Apr 21, 2020 15:29:43 GMT Rey Kahuka said:

Apr 21, 2020 15:19:35 GMT @thezahir1974 said:

www.politico.eu/article/how-portugal-became-europes-coronavirus-exception/

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/swift-action-kept-portugals-coronavirus-crisis-in-check-says-minister?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1587306956

Little old Portugal once again punching itself above it's weight against the big boys.

"Due to the frailty of our health system it could potentially have been worse here than in Italy or Spain,"

Yay, I guess? Good job on curbing the spread of the virus, but it's a bit of cold comfort when you're admitting you dodged a bullet because it would've been total devastation considering the healthcare system is in complete disarray. Hopefully this opens some doors to major changes over there.

Ah, the fear of the collapse of our health system(s):

www.zeit.de/wissen/2020-04/krankenhaeuser-kapazitaeten-coronavirus-patienten-deutschland

Erste Zahlen aus dem Register zeigen, dass die Lage dank der vielen Erweiterungen in den Kliniken noch vergleichsweise entspannt ist: Insgesamt sind in den rund 900 Intensiv-Abteilungen, die derzeit ihre Daten an das DIVI melden, 10.340 Intensivbetten belegt (Stand 1. April 6 Uhr). In nur 18 Prozent dieser belegten Intensivbetten werden gerade Corona-Patienten behandelt. Das sind insgesamt 1.853 schwer an Covid-19 Erkrankte.

The numbers for Germany:

Intensive care beds in Germany overall: 28,000+ (also stated in the article)

Intensive care bed occupied by patients: 10,340

Occupied by Corona patients (including the ones imported form Italy and France for whom tax payers like me have to pay the bills): 1,853 (=>6,6% of all ICBs).

While Corona patients take up less then 7% off all beds, nearly two thirds of all intensive care beds are not in use.

Do you have the numbers for your country...the actual ones?! Or do you just spread further the panic and hysteria of your media?!

When I was in hospital in 2013, the nurses were all the time complaining how understaffed they were - even to us patients- , but all the time I saw them in their little station ward chatting, eating, playing computer games, doing stuff with their cell phones or were ignoring patients.

And also back then they had limited resources (hospitals have been closed in large numbers over the last years):

First I had to wait hours in the ER, then I was transferred for one night to the surgery, then oncology (on the same floor with the

pediatrics - I guess the little ones shall learn quickly were the journey ends for us) and only then to urology.