[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19, was: Re: Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-13, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>
> The main problem in many places, especially if it spreads quickly, is 
> that there aren't enough hospital beds.
>

Indeed. Some people are looking at the relatively low death rate now,
but are not considering the number of people who need advanced critical
care in order to survive it.

Those death rates are likely to go up if the health services get
overwhelmed because there is unlikely to be enough critical care
equipment to meet everyone's needs. I suspect we would be looking
at a triage situation in that case where the goal is to maximise
the number of survivors instead of being able to treat everyone who
would otherwise be able to get advanced treatment and survive.

Simon.

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