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"...if this happens in a rural hospital, they do not have the facilities to deal with it."

In most cities, they won't have the first responder services to deal with it.

There will be plenty of muggings, burglaries, shootings, stabbings, etc. for paramedics to respond to. They will have to be in full biohazard garb not matter what they respond to, so following those protocols is going to take a lot of time and decrease the amount of calls they can respond to anyway.

911 won't even respond if you call in because a family member is sick, they will say hospitals are full, quarantine at home. If you can get the family member to the hospital, that's fine, but you probably won't be seen today.

They will have to slow everything they do way down and follow very careful protocols for the safety of the hospital workers, or they won't come to work. This isn't China.

My daughter is a paramedic. Her husband is a state trooper.

He will go to work if the brimstone is falling from the heavens.

She....will call in sick. Only after grabbing enough IV needles and bags for her family.

She is sick of sick people already.....

Rumors are that 1,000 Wuhan police are infected. That is why China has been flying in planes loads of police from outside Wuhan. This appears to target the frontliners because we they are not properly hazmatted.