It’s easy for people to play doctor- “They shouldn’t have put them on the vent, they should’ve done this or that”- until you get a glimpse of what’s really going on behind the scenes. There’s no doubt that Hatzoloh and Bikur Cholim saved countless lives by catching low oxygen patients early, many of whom didn’t even realize how ill they were, and treating them with oxygen concentrators and the like rather than waiting until they were beyond help.
B”h from what I understand at least in Lakewood they have almost no oxygen concentrators in use by new onset patients; the few that are still in use are mostly holdovers and discharges and the like, so clearly it a much better place now, but that nurses description is sobering indeed.
