Well, here's what happens when the system is overloaded and can no longer cope:
Italy recorded a record 969 deaths today, bringing the total for Italian Covid-19 related deaths to 9134. But under all that is a pretty sad number: 46 doctors have died since the outbreak. The infection is slowing but there's a lag with deaths and the hospitals can't cope. UK also had it's highest climb in deaths today.
Italy's measures HAVE worked, but only to some extent: they brought the exponential growth down and, instead of doubling the number of cases in roughly 5 days, they now double them in roughly 13 days: while that's a big improvement, it STILL means there's something amiss and, despite all the measures they took, this bloody virus is STILL spreading.
The only way they'll manage to bring the deaths down significantly is to have plenty of ventilators AND medical workers to spare: right now, they have neither because a significant amount of medical workers have caught this virus themselves, thus REDUCING their "combat force" and, as we all know, they are in dire need of more ventilators, as is pretty much every single country that is being hit hard by this virus.
Yesterday i said Portugal had roughly 1500 ventilators, right? According to what was on a Portuguese news channel about 30 minutes ago, we actually have a grand total of ... 1142 ventilators ...
Portugal has ordered 500 ventilators but i have no idea when they'll arrive
Since most countries except China have implemented "lighter" measures than Italy and Italy's measures aren't working fast enough for Italy, it's bound to not work for other countries either
We NEED to change the way we're approaching this !!!
