Posted on 03/18/2020 1:46:18 AM PDT by Helicondelta
A new Harvard analysis shows that many parts of the United States will have far too few hospital beds if the new coronavirus continues to spread widely and if nothing is done to expand capacity.
In 40 percent of markets around the country, hospitals would not be able to make enough room for all the patients who became ill with Covid-19, even if they could empty their beds of other patients. That statistic assumes that 40 percent of adults become infected with the virus over 12 months, a scenario described as “moderate” by the team behind the calculations.
Yet the Harvard estimates suggest that the coronavirus outbreak could require significantly more resources than that. In hard-hit Italy, hospitals have been rationing care for older patients who are severely ill with the virus.
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I have a feeling Trump is busing planning for that.
He’s very good at seeing where the ball is going, to use a sporting metaphor, while the press is the stupid dog sniffing the empty hand that just threw the ball, wondering how come the ball just vanished.
Thus, flattening the curve.
Better safe than sorry. It looks really bad
I think it will flatten the curve (if you are referring to the number of new cases) and if so, I don’t disagree with the goal.
It is the cost that bothers me. Flattening the curve may be a victory in itself, but at the cost we are imposing, a Pyrrhic one, IMO.
I work in a hospital, and if you need ANY service, you can walk in and get it.
They are rescheduling all non-critical outpatient exams and procedures as well as elective admissions which is leaving huge gaps in schedules, but there are fewer people onsite to do them at this time. They have instructions not to turn anyone away who arrives for services.
Where were these super duper analysts when the “brilliant” elites located 80-90% of our supply chains in China?
“we will have a vax soon”
Even if a vaccine is discovered, one of two things will happen:
1. They won’t tell us, or
2. They’ll tell us it might be available after November 3, 2020.
Taking ChiCom payoffs.
I am in total agreement, we have a minor epidemic, so we turn it into a depression so that we can elect a communist to save us. I hope when it’s all done, they literally hang the media members and politicians who were complicit in it. It looks more and more to me like a planned disaster, or at the least planning hysteria once it popped up in China.
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