Not quite. Cocktail napkin numbers? If only 20% of 330 million get it that’s roughly 60 million people. 1 % of that is 60,000. Can this country come up with an additional 30,000 ventilators in the next month? When the entire world will need ventilators? Can we make medical students bag 30,000 people for the next month?
You may have heard that CPAP machines have been drafted into service in some stressed places.
we will have to triage if we must.....
we also have cpap/bipap and heated hi flow O2. in addition there are a couple drug combinations looking promising. I have not heard of south korea or hong kong running out of vents and there was the whole diamond princess experience. The penetration of this does not look to be that high. Prepare for the worst but there is reason to hope this will not be as drastic as forecast
“If only 20% of 330 million get it...”
Only? That’d be unprecedented.
What possible basis can there be for postulating 20% of the population gets it?
This is secretly the leftists idea of Utopia..actually 50% would be hellven on Earth.