With serious shortages of ventilators, protective equipment and trained workers, the physicians said senior staff at hospitals were beginning to confront an excruciating debate on intensive care rationing. NHS England said it was crucial to reduce the coronavirus's infection rate to ease peak pressure on the health system. The physicians interviewed by Reuters said, if ventilators were secured, the aim was to increase intensive care beds from around 4,200 to over 16,000, partly by using beds in other parts of hospitals. (Image: Getty Images)"Once you have exhausted your capacity and exhausted your ability to expand your capacity you probably have to make other decisions about admission into intensive care." "And if I do want to go into hospital, do I then want to go to intensive care where my chances of surviving are minimal?"

Source: Daily Mirror March 21, 2020 00:11 UTC