Doctors in crowded London hospitals say they are having to choose who will receive life-saving intensive care as a new highly contagious strain of coronavirus is devastating the UK.
“Unfortunately, some hospitals are now forced to follow him. . . emergency screening of all patients requiring intensive care, ”said Dr. Katharina Hauck, of Imperial College London, to the Daily Mail.
“Applying this guidance effectively means that patients under the age of 65 who are not frail will have priority over elderly and frail patients for intensive care. Fragile patients would be seen in general wards with less intensive treatment. “
More than 7,000 patients are currently hospitalized in London, according to The Sun. The number of people with ventilators has almost doubled since Christmas.
The increase is being fueled by a new variant of the coronavirus that appeared in the UK in September and is considered 70 percent more transmissible than previous strains of the disease.