In the NHS, the current threshold for being admitted to ICU is needing 15 litres of oxygen. Yet Boris Johnson was admitted and only given 4. Early signs from Germany are that giving oxygen and early admissions might help lower the death rate. Instead, we seem to be telling people to wait until they’re blue in the mouth, when they’ll need to risk the ventilator lottery.
Can we start discussing the Boris exception to treatment and if it’s feasible to roll out this ‘precautionary’ approach to the rest of the population?
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Boris Johnson and the precautionary ‘4 litres of oxygen’
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Lycidas · 20/04/2020 15:45
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