LETTER: Hospitals ill-equipped to fight Covid-19 Molotov cocktail
Preventing an outbreak should start in our homes and with local municipalities
The current approach to fighting the spread of the Covid-19 virus, advocated by the government and supported unquestioningly by most media houses — hospital-driven care — is simply wrong. Hospitals are the last line of defence. The fight to contain the virus outbreak should start in our homes and with local municipalities.
Hospitals cannot deal with the expected influx of Covid-19 infections. The Centre for Disease Control thinks in the worst-case scenario we should expect between 500,000 and 1-million admissions. Most patients will need ventilators we don’t have — airborne germs first destroy the protective cells of the upper respiratory tract, and most victims succumb to pneumonia. Our hospitals cannot cope with the seasonal flu admissions. We don’t have enough beds. Imagine if you have 15 patients that need to be admitted to intensive care at the same time...
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