[cgbg]

The health care system will be overloaded in a few weeks in certain hot spots (metro Seattle, SF, LA post marathon (!), New York, Boston)

Good luck flying large numbers of these kinds of patients to hospitals with open beds elsewhere around the country...

[proust]

This. I just don’t see how this level of care is scalable.

[StolarStorm]

Glad I had my thyroid cancer surgery last month. Hospitals are going to be maxed out soon. “but it’s just the flu”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I posted this article by Liz Sprecht yesterday: Risk of Systemic Healthcare Failure due to #COVID19 where she runs some simple exponential growth numbers and shows us running out of all hospital rooms and masks in short order if exponential growth occurs. She mentions the thousands of other items needed from ventilators to saline drip bags that will run out, too.

About three weeks ago it was announced five patients were being moved to a hospital in Spokane. It was one of only 11 hospitals in the nation with the proper isolation rooms for highly infectious diseases and has something like 10 beds. The number of such isolation rooms in the entire country is quite low and will be quickly overwhelmed.