Lockdown: is economic meltdown a price worth paying to halt or delay what is already amongst us?
Say Carl Heneghan and Director and Carl Heneghan, Senior Fellow of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford
“Lockdown is going to bankrupt all of us and our descendants and is unlikely at this point to slow or halt viral circulation as the genie is out of the bottle. What the current situation boils down to is this: is economic meltdown a price worth paying to halt or delay what is already amongst us?”
“In Bergamo, Italy, clinicians reflected on how to prepare for the next outbreak. Their view is that focussing on hospitals is the wrong way to manage COVID.
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Changing the emphasis from hospitals to the community could avert a disaster for the wider population. Care in the home setting restricts movements of the infected…
Older Patients admitted to hospital are at greater risk… An older person admitted to hospital runs the risk of never seeing the light of day again. This is probably the clearest message coming from Italy.“