Here in Portugal, we're closing in on 20K fatalities from COVID in total. 2013 of those deaths happened in
ONE WEEK: the last week of January 2021.
Our hospitals were so overwhelmed that there were @ times over 40 ambulances waiting outside the country's biggest hospital, waiting for availability, and that was by no means an isolated incidence nor the only hospital where that happened. Health professionals simply couldn't attend the AVALANCHE of people turning to the hospitals.
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Imagine someone with ... say ... appendicitis trying to get in a hospital overwhelmed with patients from COVID: if not seen in time, there's the REAL RISK of this patient dying from this, something that is QUITE TREATABLE nowadays.