The only reason a hospital would get creamed is if the media panics everyone with a sniffle to rush to the hospital instead of calling their doctor - this is a crime.
I told my son at breakfast Sunday I have had the sniffles for 4 months and believe it is caused by my faithfully taking my many medications this winter.
Then my son said they changed his medications a year ago and he has had sniffles for the last year.-Tom
Hospitals are getting smart, and setting up tents outside to handle people with respiratory or fever symptoms. That way, if they are positive for COVID, they don’t infect the waiting rooms/ER/entrance halls.
They can outfit them properly, and transport them directly to the isolation rooms set up already to handle cases.
I am going to check if my local hospital has done this yet. We don’t have any cases in our county, but there are some a couple of counties over, so I imagine it is time to prepare.