I swear some people are retarded.
Hospitals would measure their capacity. The capacity is impacted by COVID. Heart attacks and strokes didn’t stop during the pandemic. (Yes, I know people didn’t go to the hospital when they should have.). They took up as many beds as usual.
The media translated this to “all capacity is Covid.” That was never the case. The important metric has been “is there a bed for me?”
Why was/is this so difficult to understand?
Mayo Clinic furloughed or reduced pay of 30,000 employees.. medical departments were mostly quiet.. surgical volume at 25 percent ..
Other health care institutions, like Olmsted Medical Center, similar.
Epidemiologist Dr Knut Wittkowski: ‘Lockdown Has No Benefit, Only Negative Effects’.. illegal / un-constitutional policy lock-downs – came way too late
What you say is true, but this is all being driven by various narratives that started back in March, when all the projections were 2 million deaths and Cuomo demanding 30,000 more ventilators and 1000s of more beds in places like Javitz convention center.
And to be fair, with those kinds of projections, the first need was to be to prevent the healthcare system from being overloaded.
We did a terrible job of triage early on. Not to totally change subjects, but we had strong evidence that HQC+ worked if given to patients early; upon diagnoses or onset of first symptom. Those who hate Trump more than fellow humans (many establishment types in government, in medical research, etc) just decided to try to disprove it with very sloppy research with headline grabbers while ignoring the good medicine being practiced by doctors in Europe, New York and California among other places. We probably could have put a lot of this disease down early if we followed better protocols. 80% of people put on a ventilator are dying but nobody is really seriously questioning their use or the mad scrample to produce them despite the fact that the evidence actually suggests ventilators are killing more than they save. We did not even do a good job of allocating resources. Covid patients should have gone to covid designated hospitals leaving other hospitals for non-covid treatments.