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The majority of Supermarket chains based in San Diego have put into effect limits on bog roll, sanitary products and flu medication haha!
I saw on the new inovio a biotech company based here in San Diego claim they have manufactured a vaccine. They made the claim about a week or two ago and are now allowing the local press into their facilities to have a look
I saw on the new inovio a biotech company based here in San Diego claim they have manufactured a vaccine. They made the claim about a week or two ago and are now allowing the local press into their facilities to have a look
The ability and desire of governments to do the best for their people will save or doom the lives of thousands. Absolute madness that this sort of thinking is not a priority come election time when people are more concerned about hearing less foreign accents in the milk aisle
This is why....
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-hospital-bed/607807/
Today, Italy has 10,149 cases of the coronavirus. There are now simply too many patients for each one of them to receive adequate care. Doctors and nurses are unable to tend to everybody. They lack machines to ventilate all those gasping for air.
Now the Italian College of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI) has published guidelines for the criteria that doctors and nurses should follow in these extraordinary circumstances. The document begins by likening the moral choices facing Italian doctors to the forms of wartime triage that are required in the field of “catastrophe medicine.” Instead of providing intensive care to all patients who need it, its authors suggest, it is becoming necessary to follow “the most widely shared criteria regarding distributive justice and the appropriate allocation of limited health resources.”
The principle they settle upon is utilitarian. “Informed by the principle of maximizing benefits for the largest number,” they suggest that “the allocation criteria need to guarantee that those patients with the highest chance of therapeutic success will retain access to intensive care.”
The authors, who are medical doctors, then deduce a set of concrete recommendations for how to manage these impossible choices, including this: “It may become necessary to establish an age limit for access to intensive care.”
Those who are too old to have a high likelihood of recovery, or who have too low a number of “life-years” left even if they should survive, will be left to die. This sounds cruel, but the alternative, the document argues, is no better. “In case of a total saturation of resources, maintaining the criterion of ‘first come, first served’ would amount to a decision to exclude late-arriving patients from access to intensive care.”
In addition to age, doctors and nurses are also told to take a patient’s overall state of health into account: “The presence of comorbidities needs to be carefully evaluated.” This is in part because early studies of the virus seem to suggest that patients with serious preexisting health conditions are significantly more likely to die. But it is also because patients in a worse state of overall health could require a greater share of scarce resources to survive: “What might be a relatively short treatment course in healthier people could be longer and more resource-consuming in the case of older or more fragile patients.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-hospital-bed/607807/
Today, Italy has 10,149 cases of the coronavirus. There are now simply too many patients for each one of them to receive adequate care. Doctors and nurses are unable to tend to everybody. They lack machines to ventilate all those gasping for air.
Now the Italian College of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI) has published guidelines for the criteria that doctors and nurses should follow in these extraordinary circumstances. The document begins by likening the moral choices facing Italian doctors to the forms of wartime triage that are required in the field of “catastrophe medicine.” Instead of providing intensive care to all patients who need it, its authors suggest, it is becoming necessary to follow “the most widely shared criteria regarding distributive justice and the appropriate allocation of limited health resources.”
The principle they settle upon is utilitarian. “Informed by the principle of maximizing benefits for the largest number,” they suggest that “the allocation criteria need to guarantee that those patients with the highest chance of therapeutic success will retain access to intensive care.”
The authors, who are medical doctors, then deduce a set of concrete recommendations for how to manage these impossible choices, including this: “It may become necessary to establish an age limit for access to intensive care.”
Those who are too old to have a high likelihood of recovery, or who have too low a number of “life-years” left even if they should survive, will be left to die. This sounds cruel, but the alternative, the document argues, is no better. “In case of a total saturation of resources, maintaining the criterion of ‘first come, first served’ would amount to a decision to exclude late-arriving patients from access to intensive care.”
In addition to age, doctors and nurses are also told to take a patient’s overall state of health into account: “The presence of comorbidities needs to be carefully evaluated.” This is in part because early studies of the virus seem to suggest that patients with serious preexisting health conditions are significantly more likely to die. But it is also because patients in a worse state of overall health could require a greater share of scarce resources to survive: “What might be a relatively short treatment course in healthier people could be longer and more resource-consuming in the case of older or more fragile patients.”
the us banning all travel from the EU but not the UK.
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There has been a vaccine for a few weeks now, but it still has to go through testing and trials. Then if deemed safe and effective, production on a large scale can start. So still a year out from being available
Sorry should have elaborated I left out a key piece. Their claim is that their vaccine I guess is different and would be cost effective this cheaper. But interestingly it's been out the same time as the vaccine to mention.
But good point it will still be a long time for any vaccine to be handed out
TN Toffee
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Have all UK citizens already been required to switch over to the new passports or are your old EU ones still valid during this transition phase? If the old ones are void, I guess it makes at least a little sense, but if not, how are they going to be able to easily differentiate a person from the UK versus one from the EU?
barneygumble
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ummm... it will say which nationality on the front and inside?
NBA suspends season
GwladysPhil
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Yep panic time.
TheBigIguana
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Hopefully that's the beginning of a serious action in the US. I think we can still contain it pretty damn well but we have to get really serious, really soon.
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