Italy to stop treating the elderly and "focus on those with better survival chances"

[Demovictory9]

Italy announces all shops except pharmacies and food outlets will be CLOSED as coronavirus death toll climbs by 31% to 827 in 24 hours and intensive care units are advise to stop treating the elderly
All non-essential shops except pharmacies and food outlets will be closed in Italy as cases of coronavirus soar
Cases in Italy jumped in the last 24 hours by 196 to 827 as intensive care units face acute shortage of beds
As a result medics should stop treating elderly and focus on those with better survival chances, doctors warn
Comes as coronavirus cases in Italy topped 12,000 with more than 800 deaths and Europe went over 22,000
Denmark has announced it will close all kindergartens, schools and universities for two weeks over the virus

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8101135/Intensive-care-units-stop-treating-elderly-coronavirus-outbreak-worsens.html

[Greywing]

1. Wow ... just wow! I am tearing up at the thought of this ...

This is has to be just a horrible decision to make.

[Ms. Toad]

3. Remember the source.

The Daily Mail is a right wing tabloid newspaper.

It may be true (even a broken clock is right at least once a day) - but I would not trust it without verification.

[tblue37]

7. I read a tweet from an Italian doctor in Milan who said they were reserving the

ventilators for younger patients.

[NickB79]

2. Anyone have a better source than the Daily Mail?

Not that I don't believe it, but the Mail isn't highly reputable.

[Roland99]

4. This is why mitigation, containment and prevention were CRUCIAl

They can’t handle a spike

Neither can we

[GulfCoast66]

5. Horrible source. But believable. Very believable.

The Author of The Great Influenza is prophetic. At the end of his history he speculates what it would look into our world of a similar pandemic hit. Italy it it to a tee.

And now it is coming to a hospital near you.

If we shut down everything right now we might prevent it. But we won’t. I live in Central Florida. Theme Parks up and running.

I don’t think our state officials are that callus. Not even DeSantis who has moved pretty quick. But it is a lack of imagination. They can easily imagine the economic damage of shutting down tourism for a few months. They cannot imagine dead people stacked in hospitals. Due to their lack of imagination they May well get both. And it’s not like I am hearing our Democratic officials clamoring to shut things down. They too can’t bring themselves to imagine the potential.

[tblue37]

6. If the US does that sort of triage when things get bad, I will be screwed. nt

[GulfCoast66]

8. As will my wife. Late 50's the picture of health.

But is susceptible to pneumonia. Has had it twice in the last decade.

[Wounded Bear]

9. It's what happens when a pandemic overwhelms the medical system...

[brooklynite]

10. NOT THE GOVERNMENT POLICY!!!

PLEASE! READ THE SENTENCE!

As a result medics should stop treating elderly and focus on those with better survival chances, doctors warn

[uponit7771]

11. Okay wtf Italy

[mitch96]

12. Sounds like the old "sacrifice the few for the greater good" stuff

[Native]

13. Our future! Better make sure our wills are up to date.

[TomVilmer]

14. It is the Daily Mail... but this quote is fully correct.

Be critical to all sources - but you can use even the bad ones to get some news items, and then google after better sources.