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UPDATE: A high-school friend who lives in Italy now writes:
The news that I want to share is that the numbers being reported don’t seem to include those admitted to the hospital. In Italy we have (approximate numbers) tested 20,000, 4,000 confirmed, 200 deceased, 500 cured in the hospital and 600 currently in intensive care. I don’t know if anyone is in the hospital with covid19 and not in intensive care. Anyway, that’s 1300/4000 (32%) requiring hospitalization. I sure hope the US finds a way to help the uninsured (and under-insured) masses!
Well, they’ll get treated and then their bills will get written off or passed to Uncle Sam. But that’s an awful lot of people requiring hospitalization. The ratio looks awful, but that may just be a function of who’s getting tested. At least, I certainly hope so.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Stanford University Cancels All In-Class Courses for Remainder of Quarter Due To Coronavirus Concerns.
Just a note on the bottom item.
The nurses interviewed are giving you they key point.
There ARE plans in place at every hospital in the US. It is part of their licensing process. Every employee is required to have read them, and should know where they are. They sign off on their employment every year to do that.
The reality is that nurses are not going to take the extra time to read up. The Nurse Managers are probably only now being brought up to speed. And the stock of PPE is probably very low this time of year. The administrators are more interested in fellating the local Congressman than prepping their staff.
Because of this dismissive, lazy, and mud-footed response, most of the nurses questioned will be infected early and put out of commission. The rest will fade away into the night.
There was a twitter a few weeks ago asking about nurses being trained. The overall answer was they weren’t and didn’t have the supplies.