Usually, one would expect that the British PM would be treated at home; no question of non-availability of resource etc. Hospitalisation might suggest, then, some serious problems with, say, breathing - perhaps necessitating equipment not easily installed in his residence.
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It could not only be because of treatment but because of diagnostics, eg taking a CT if his chest. I am not sure if it’s feasible to do CT Scans at home
Ventilator use is similar to major surgery.
It appears 66% to 90% of corona patients who are put on a ventilator will die.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/8261052...
So the whole "flatten the curve" thing is less useful than advertised.
>So the whole "flatten the curve" thing is less useful than advertised.
Although even if that percentage is right, flattening the curve is still important because if hospitals are slammed with Covid patients in various states of urgency then you're likely going to be failing to save a lot of patients with other ailments.
Also you're saving the mental health of hospital workers who will be massively overworked and then be forced to endlessly be unable to do anything for patients and have to let people die rather than try to give them a chance with a ventilator.
10% to 34% chance of survival is still a long chalk better than 0% chance of survival, which is what serious COVID cases would have if no ventilators were available.
>It appears 66% to 90% of corona patients who are put on a ventilator will die.
Is there a Data Source for this?
Italy Cremona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0 Italy Bergamo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suhYeWEcJg
Two hospitals, not a single patient survived ventilation/ecmo to date (two weeks ago).
I would imagine they are giving him an MRI.
I am ignorant of this. Why an MRI?
Excuse me. I meant a CT. CT scans were used extensively in China to check the progress of the disease in the lungs.
My point was simply that it is not feasible to bring a CT scanner to his house.