'Almost half of coronavirus patients in intensive care are dying'
PATIENTS dying in intensive care from Covid-19 is close to 50 per cent according to a recent report.
“The truth is that quite a lot of these individuals [in critical care] are going to die anyway and there is a fear that we are just ventilating them for the sake of it, for the sake of doing something for them, even though it won’t be effective. That’s a worry,” said one doctor interviewed byThe high death rate raises questions about how effective critical care will be in saving the lives of people struck down by the disease.
This would relieve pressure on staff who are currently forced to cover staffing shortfalls and could end up working 80 hour weeks.
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