Hikergirl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2016
We can develop better treatment protocols.
Take the ventilator issue. We've learned that a patient's low oxygen levels does not mean that a patient needs to be intubated, and outcomes improve if we do other things, like placing patients on their stomach to open airways and the use of less invasive, less damaging ways to deliver more oxygen to patients.
We can fix supply chain issues. Not just PPE. We are also learning that the heart, kidneys, other parts of the body are affected by this is not just respiratory. So we need more dialysis machines, I'm assuming more diagnostic equipment for heart and vascular complications, and who knows what else.
We can let the studies regarding which medications are helpful progress.
If your high-risk loved one is going to get sick anyway, wouldn't you rather the doctors have more tools at their disposal so that the odds of your loved one recovering is higher? That the long-term medical issues that might come with this can be mitigated, so people who do recover will enjoy higher quality of life going forward?
Or do you think doctors would learn nothing helpful if given 6 more months to prepare for a second wave?
Are you saying we should keep things as is for another 6 more months?