Sanity in the Middle of Chaos – Why Italy Has More Deaths than China

唔夠病床唔醫80歲以上病人, 當然死啦.............

 

而連登仔想由意大利數據去計所謂中國的真實數據是打橫來講..............

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COMMENT:

Marty,

I am a physician in Ohio. Long time blog reader and pro subscriber since WEC in Orlando 2019. I am amazed at the groupthink that has “infected” medicine just like it has destroyed social science, climate change discussions, politics, etc. It is very destructive. I want to share with your readers some real science around Italy and infectious disease. Thank you for all you do. You have given me peace of mind and protected my family’s nest egg.

PL

REPLY:

We have a lot of doctors attending WEC and reading the blog. I have been getting a lot of emails questioning the level of hysteria that has been created among the medical profession. My personal opinion is this has been created by the herd mentality and is the same as Stanley Milgram’s study in his Obiendence to Authority. I highly recommend this book if you now have nowhere to go.

We instinctively have the same herd instincts. One zebra thinks it sees a lion and starts to run. The entire herd begins to run because everybody else is running. There may have been a threat, and then again there may have been nothing.

Thank you for your contribution. The study showed that 68,000 Italians die from the flu each season and it attacks the excessive elderly, of which Italy has an abundance. For those who are unaware, the further south you go in Italy and it is very common to see people in their mid 90s+. Italy has the oldest population in Europe, with about 23% of residents 65 or older, according to The New York Times. The median age in the country is 47.3, compared with 38.3 in the United States, the Times reported. Many of Italy’s deaths have been among people in their 80s, and 90s, a population known to be more susceptible to severe complications from COVID-19 and the general annual influenza.

This is why the death toll in Italy exceeded that of China. They have one of the oldest populations in the world.

文匯報

新冠肺炎疫情在英國急速蔓延，令深切治療部病床進一步短缺。國家健康暨臨床醫學研究院(NICE)前日宣佈，將向醫院發出新指引，讓醫生在病床爆滿時，決定優先救治哪些病人，意味着病人生死將取決於醫生手上。

英國現時平均每10萬人僅有6.6張深切治療病床，只是意大利的一半及德國的1/5，呼吸機數量更只有4,000部，若疫情全面爆發，根本無法應付。新指引除適用於新冠肺炎病人，亦涵蓋癌症和心臟病等重症患者，暫未知是否將病人年齡納入考慮，旨在讓醫院把資源優先用於生存機會較高的病人。

在歐洲疫情最嚴重的意大利，醫院已將年輕人和身體強壯的病患，列為優先救治對象。

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