“Terminal cutoff” is now being used to gauge the level of collapse of National HC systems. The French have gone to age 80 in Strasbourg. Swiss are the same. Italy was 65 but is going down to 60 sometime today, per local doctor reports. Even with the flattening of new infections in Italy, existing patients are lingering and deteriorating while new cases still pour in. Spain has been age 60 for a while now.
And we're following Italy and Spain’s infection trajectory.
Our own docs will be doing this soon—putting Americans down like ailing pets. They need legal cover...and they need something they can hold on to at 3 am when this is all over.
Really sobering. I had a lot left in me when I was 60!
Patients in hospital and patients in nursing homes who are older than 80 years are no longer ventilated. Instead, "terminal care with opiates and sleeping pills"
Report by German disaster physicians from the University Hospital of Strasbourg (France)