So a SPD politician (medical background) came out and had a TV chat about folks in ICU situations in German hospitals and suggesting their average death age (within the ICU world) was mid-to-late 40s. The emphasis was to talk about the urgency to grasp/resolve the problem.
Well....Focus picked up the story today and some other politician (from the FDP Party) asked the stupid question.....where is the statistical data for Germans in ICU situations?
Well...the German government had to admit....they had no such data. Whoever is taking up a ICU bed at such-and-such hospital is probably counted by the business-department of that hospital, but no one is passing that data to states, or the federal government.
So trying to make the case that younger people, or older people are dying in ICU situations? You can't make it without facts.
There's no doubt that German ICU beds are being taken up at a fantastic pace (compared against all of 2020 situations).....but beyond the usage, you can't say much.
Even if you started to collect and measure the data....shouldn't you ask the ICU guy....are you a smoker...what's your Vitamin D situation....are you overweight or a heavy-drinker?
As for the suggestion of ICU folks dying at a hefty pace? Well....it might be interesting to ask just how bad a shape was the ICU guy in....prior to getting Covid-19, or being admitted.
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