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I can't believe they're rationing oxygen. I administered welding oxygen to my girlfriend every day for about 6 weeks when she had Covid. It's cheap, easy, and perfectly safe.

I assumed that when things got bad someone would just suspend the regulation requiring medical certified oxygen.

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That struck me as odd as well, although, there could indeed be a shortage.

In UK hospitals it's not so much that there's a shortage, but the oxygen distribution network/lines in hospitals aren't sized for the number of patients requiring it.

From what I've read, its a hospital infrastructure problem, not a material shortage problem. The pipes that deliver oxygen to the machines can't deliver oxygen any faster because they're freezing up from the amount of oxygen being used.

You would carry it into patients' rooms and ambulances in tanks.

There's also a shortage of said tanks.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/oxygen-s...

Welding tanks are different, and not in shortage.

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