At 23:40 13/03/2020, Thomas Cox wrote:
>While I have a good deal of sympathy with your thinking, I was just
>listening to some people discussing the looming need to allocate
>scarce resources, such as ventilators, to areas hard hit with cases
>and where local resources vary greatly.
Fair enough, but if I were one of those people, I think I would
probably prefer to wait a few hours for data in which I had
reasonable confidence, rather than to have immediate data about which
I had far less confidence. However, I realise that views about that will vary.
On a practical point, at least in the UK, any significant hospital
would have a good few spare ventilators, and it's very unlikely that
a large number of patients requiring immediate ventilation would
arrive in a very short period of time, so they would generally have
enough time to source more from somewhere (if any were available!) to
replenish if their reserve of ventilators was getting low. However,
maybe things are different in your country.
Kind Regards,
John
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