Excess deaths are soaring as health-care systems wobble
What lessons can be learned from a miserable winter across the rich world?
In 1516 thomas more described the ideal health-care system. “These hospitals are well supplied with all types of medical equipment and the nurses are sympathetic,” the philosopher wrote in “Utopia”. “Though nobody’s forced to go there, practically everyone would rather be ill in hospitals than at home.”
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