We had a national storehouse of medical supplies that were depleted by H1N1 and Obama failed to restock it.
Was obvious to many when a billion Chinese were on lockdown that this was a global event. Stunning to see the stupidity by this tasked to protect the public.
18% are requiring hospitalization. What percentage require ventilators?
At some point we hit the “nobody over 60” gets one like Italy does now.
New York and New Orleans medical systems will collapse within the next week. Field hospitals. Madison Square Garden. Superdome
The Chinese makeshifts hospitals were killing fields. Very basic treatment. 40 incinerators brought in to burn the bodies. All that with killing whistleblowers and controlling the media.
We will just see the bodies in the hallways and piled up on the news every night.
I was stunned (and pleased) to listen to some CT officials correctly “talk the talk” today and walk through their contingency plans based on an exponential infection growth.
In their words (not mine)—”doubling every three days”.
Plan A—double up on ventilators and use existing facilities.
Plan B—use several closed skilled nursing facilities as CV care centers.
Plan C—set up ancillary hospital sites for CV using a variety of state owned properties and sites.
Plan D—use university dorms as additional facilities.
It will be a tough plan to execute, but they are definitely on the right track, and understand the numbers and what they mean.
(In this case having a dumb governor may turn out to be an advantage—he let the health care professionals take over—and got out of the way.)