An example of why doctors wanted to flatten the curve on Covid.
https://news.yahoo.com/father-begged-gp-mri-dies-163319583.html
The Telegraph
Sun, December 13, 2020, 11:33 AM EST
A father-of-two who had to "beg" to get an MRI scan because of the coronavirus crisis has died of cancer, his family have revealed.
Sherwin Hall, 27, from Leeds, West Yorkshire, went to hospital on March 23 suffering from leg pain but despite repeated visits he was only given a course of antibiotics for a misdiagnosis of prostatitis.
After "begging for a scan" and 13 hospital visits in four weeks, Mr Hall was finally given an MRI on May 26 which revealed a 14cm malignant tumour in his pelvis and 30 small tumours on his lungs.
Before his death, Mr Hall said: "I kept begging them in April and May to give me an MRI scan, but no-one would listen.
"Both my GP and my consultant told me that I couldn't get one because scanning services were slowed down because of the coronavirus."
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An international study has suggested that for every four-week delay in treatment there is a 6 per cent to 13 per cent reduction in survival which could lead to the death of tens of thousands of cancer patients who could have survived under normal circumstances.
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