Greco calculates thousands of additional cardiac arrest deaths

So I'll put the numbers in it for you.

Yeah.

I mean, I just, I'm sorry.

I'm the one when it comes to the numbers in my brain.

I want you to elaborate further.

So we do about 80 cardiac arrests a day.

Yeah.

Right?

So that works out to about 29,000 cardiac arrests a year.

At a 16% survival rate, that means 5,000 people survived that year.

At a 37% survival rate, 9,000 people survived that year.

So how do you put a cost on what is going on?

That means 4,000 people died this year that didn't need to if they would have gone to 2019.

That's what I was thinking.

I was going to get to that.

I have to say, I don't think that there is a single more compelling thing that anybody could say this entire day than that.

Well, thank you.

Thank you very much.

I'm out.

No.

I really mean it.

I mean, like how, what, for all of us as public servants, as policymakers, that is a number we have to solve for.

Thousands of people that are dying in the streets of New York City that shouldn't be, that are in crisis that shouldn't be because we don't have the workforce in place that is responding in real time as well as we did just several years ago.

The fire department's gone.

Well, and that was my point when I brought the survival rate.

Totally.

Because I've heard everybody talk about response times, which is very important, obviously.

We need the staffing for that.

But the survival rate shows that we're losing the experience.

They are leaving.

And I gave you that story about the two officers who left.

It's just more experience just going out.

the door because we're not doing anything to give them here.

I appreciate you highlighting the importance of experienced workforce.

I think that is an important component here, but I just think the numbers themselves are profoundly different.

Thousands of people are dying in New York City that shouldn't be.

Right.