Several experts, including Diederik Gommers (Erasmus MC and then chairman of the intensive care physicians), Bart Berden (Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital) and Jan Kluytmans (UMC Utrecht), are unpleasantly surprised and consider it a missed opportunity that the information was not shared with hospitals at the time. “If we had known this, we could have scaled up a lot sooner, that would have saved a lot of stress,” says Gommers, for example.
Alarming RIVM memo about stalling care not shared with hospitals
