After about two months of treatment his serious Covid-19-condition is a clinic in the vicinity of Seattle, has presented a 70-year-old Americans a bill of over a Million dollars. His heart had remained "almost for the second Time to stand", as he had received the 181-page bill in the amount of 1.122.501,04 dollars (about 997.000 euros), said Michael Flor on Saturday, the "Seattle Times".
Flor was on 4. March Covid-19 to Swedish hospital in Issaquah to be hospitalised. It was so bad that the nurses had to hold him one Evening the phone so he could take his wife and two children farewell. But he recovered, and on December 5. In may, the clinic under the Jubilation of the nursing staff to leave.
More than two million infections
The bill came later, and according to that he should have to pay for, among other things, 9736 dollars per day in the intensive care unit of 82,000 dollars for the 29-day use of a Ventilator and $ 100,000 for his care as an acute care Patient is at risk.
According to the "Seattle Times" is the man on Medicare, the health insurance for older citizens in the United States, secured. However, neither he nor Medicare for the astronomical sum will need to pay, reported the leaf and refers to the $ 100 million that the Congress will ill compensate homes for the treatment of Covid-19-patients.
Meanwhile, 734 more deaths have been registered in the United States within 24 hours in connection with the novel Coronavirus. As the Johns-Hopkins-reported University in Baltimore, have died since the beginning of the pandemic in the United States, more than 115.300 people to the consequences of their Corona-infection. The number of infections, therefore, rose to more than 2.07 million.
every Day, approximately 20,000 new cases of infection in the United States currently as before. Both measured to the death - as well as the infection cases, the United States continues to be the most difficult of the Corona-pandemic-affected country in the world. The head of the health authority, CDC, Robert Redfield, stressed on Friday that the pandemic was not yet over. "It is important that we remind ourselves that this Situation is unprecedented. And that the pandemic is not yet over,“ he said.
Date Of Update: 14 June 2020, 14:20
