re: Hospitals around the nation are seeing a 41% increase in non-covid mortality

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It also talks about how hospitals are using “algorithms and a team of experts” to determine what is and is not essential. There was also this:

“"There was someone who had a brain tumor who was told they would not be able to have surgery, which was basically, and appears to be, a death sentence for that patient," Lichtenfeld says.”

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That's gut wrenching. I'm not trying to argue that things at hospitals are normal, by any stretch. The only reason why I responded to the thread in the first place was to react to the "we did it" comment, which I (apparently incorrectly) interpreted to mean that there was something that "we" did to affect things beyond what you would normally see from the effects of a global pandemic. A lot of really difficult choices were made in managing this thing and not all will end up being correct. It definitely sucks.