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"I don't have the stats, perhaps you can provide the, 'evidence', that c-19 infected people, hospitalized in intensive care, die at a higher rate than, Heart/Cancer/Organ failure/etc. people, that are hospitalized in intensive care ?"
Before I go into the specifics are you asking specifically about Heart/Cancer/Organ failure or all patients as I indicated?
I can most likely find a standard of care, by region, for intensive care but separating them by type of disease will take a rather long time, I'd say 7 months as I don't have many people that can look into this at this time and data is heavily in flux.
Basically there are two fields of thought regarding ICU and exclusively ICU with not other type of medical care, type, concept, implementation or execution of care, exclusively ICU and only ICU care, and the mortality rates specific to SARS-COV-2 and exclusively SARS-COV-2 with the exclusion of all other types or SARS, influenza, or any other disease.
One is that some areas were initially overwhelmed with an influx of ICU, exclusively and only ICU patients and this led to a non-typical waiting time, or delayed implementation of what would be considered standard ICU measures. This means many people were too far gone by the time they received proper care.
Another is that the standard of influenza care in ICU and only ICU treatment processes is not ideal for SARS-COV-2, and only SARS-COV-2 excluding all other disease. So the learning curve has resulted in a disproportionate amount of mortality for patients with SARS-COV-2 and only SARS-COV-2.
Now the huge variables come into play when comorbidity factors are taken into account. This would be an enormous undertaking to evaluate at this time. My expectation is that survival rates for SARS-COV-2 and only SARS-COV-2 will increase as availability of care is managed appropriately, and we learn more about how to treat those patients.
My assessment is that 10,000 new cases of verified SARS-COV-2 were identified yesterday in one county. I would expect an increase of patients due to this disease would end up in hospitals. If 10,000 organ failures were identified in the same county tomorrow, I would expect an increase of organ failure patients to end up in hospitals as well.
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