I am struggling to reconcile this story with the numbers of deaths so far vs the number of deaths in any given year. A french infectious disease specialist mentioned that 2017 had been a bad year for infectious respiratory diseases in France, with over 60,000 additional deaths in winter, to the point that it affected life expectancy tables [1]. I don’t remember any mention of hospitals being overwhelmed and doing war-time triage then.
It is possible than one hospital may be overwhelmed, but surely it cannot be representative of hospitals across Italy or even a region.
It is possible than one hospital may be overwhelmed, but surely it cannot be representative of hospitals across Italy or even a region.
[1] for french speakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb8Q1yr2cjo