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These Places Could Run Out Of Hospital Beds Soon
nytimes.com ^ | March 17, 2020

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communityspread; coronavirus; covid19; wuhansarscov2
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To: rlmorel
Yes!   Yes!   Yes!
61 posted on 03/18/2020 12:49:32 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: mad_as_he$$

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.


62 posted on 03/18/2020 12:52:18 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: rlmorel

Thus, flattening the curve.


63 posted on 03/18/2020 12:53:39 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Helicondelta

Better safe than sorry. It looks really bad

64 posted on 03/18/2020 12:56:20 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: 1Old Pro

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.


65 posted on 03/18/2020 1:02:43 PM PDT by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: higgmeister

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.


66 posted on 03/18/2020 1:05:52 PM PDT by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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To: Helicondelta

Where were these super duper analysts when the “brilliant” elites located 80-90% of our supply chains in China?


67 posted on 03/18/2020 1:06:18 PM PDT by Chgogal
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To: cherry

“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.


68 posted on 03/18/2020 1:08:23 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: Chgogal

Taking ChiCom payoffs.


69 posted on 03/18/2020 1:08:43 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: rlmorel

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.


70 posted on 03/18/2020 1:42:59 PM PDT by allwrong57
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