Sep 12, 2021

tweet of the Day


Translation:
Professor Galia Rahav (a Professor of Infectious Diseases, or something like that, at Sheba Hospital) said on the Kalman Libskind show that the ICU units are giving preferential treatment to young patients over older patients, resulting in young people who chose not to get vaccinated receiving priority treatment over older vaccinated patients. This is not ethical or proper. Somebody who chose to not get vaccinated, whether young or old, should wit at the end of the line.


My instinct is to agree, but I dont know enough about medicine or ethics to make such decisions. And thankfully or hopefully I will probably never be in a position to make such a decision. What do you think?



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6 comments:

  1. LES AYMSeptember 12, 2021 9:20 PM

    I agree "Somebody who chose to not get vaccinated, whether young or old, should wit at the end of the line"
    Ideally everyone should be treated equally, however if resources are so stretched that choices need to be made. Vaccinated comes first.

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    1. ThomasSeptember 13, 2021 4:04 PM

      It is probably a halachic question. Do you think somebody who does not smoke should get priority when treated for cancer vs. smokers ?

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    2. Rafi G.September 13, 2021 4:11 PM

      if there arent enough lungs, generally a smoker, as far as I know, will be lower on the transplant list. if other resources are in tight supply, I imagine a similar policy is used.

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  2. EphraimSeptember 13, 2021 8:34 AM

    See here for e.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217126/
    "In general, patients with good prognoses for recovery have priority over patients with poor prognoses." That may explain what's going on here.

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  3. InsomniaSeptember 14, 2021 1:06 AM

    That means that a unvaccinated patient with good prognosis will be left to die ahead of the oposite. It would cause more deaths. All this disgusting triage which demonizes people who chose not to vaccinate is a great way of hiding 2 government errors over Corona:
    1. Why are they not giving Ivermectin early treatment AS WELL as vaccines as early treatment. We have more than enough evidence for Ivermectine now and it costs $1 per day.
    2. Government underfunding of the health service was a major problem before Corona and you would think that so many months into Corona the government would fix that. I also don't understand how Israeli field hospitals can be set up so fast in foreign countries and yet the government has not yet opened up extra ICU beds in hospitals here.

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    1. ZBSeptember 14, 2021 10:38 PM

      Because Ivermectin, unless you are a horse that needs to be dewormed, has no serious evidence that it works at all, why don't you take Zinc and HCQ or that fake treatment was discarded last year, I can't keep up...

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