(Snippets from the frontline)
COVID-19/BLM: Zero is your nightmare
My medical colleagues on the east coast will tell you the nightmare of their recent experience with COVID-19. It is engrained in their psyche forever, and some will suffer unceasing PTST.
There are some citizens convinced politics underlies this illness and not a virus. With re-opening taking place, and in the shadows of BLM, fingers are pointing claiming “what happened to the made-up viral calamity which shut down the economy?”
Every day government and news programs sling numbers to saturate your neurons. Too much information keeps us from sorting what is really important. Plus, you know some statistics are manipulated or twisted to gain a political edge. Shameful.
Early in this battle, “flattening the curve” was essential. As a physician and scientist, in order to know whether the pandemic is getting better or worse, you only need to have two questions answered from your local hospital:
How many ventilators are available?
How many ICU beds are available?
If the answer is zero, then your hospital is at capacity, and should you or your loved ones become ill, there is no room for you.
Zero is now your nightmare.
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
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