Hospitals are urged not to treat non-Covid patients until they can respond to a new coronavirus surge
” that have happened in the past couple of months in the US. This is a danger in any epidemic; during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014-2016, the increase in deaths from measles, malaria, Aids and tuberculosis ultimatelyIn the current situation in the US it is unlikely that indirect mortality will ever outpace deaths from Covid-19 itself. But the pause in medicine is an urgent public health challenge in its own right.
The medical profession has every incentive to move as quickly as possible, as doctors and hospitals are taking an enormous
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