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Are we doing anything to increase capacity in the United States besides making testing kits? I know we will learn more about treating patients with COVID-19 ov
by dkarl 7y ago
Are we doing anything to increase capacity in the United States besides making testing kits? I know we will learn more about treating patients with COVID-19 over time, but that doesn't add more beds and nurses. As healthcare workers themselves get sick, and supply disruptions compound, I would expect capacity to go down. It doesn't undermine the author's point, but I have no idea where the positive slope on the capacity curve is coming from in liberal democracies where the government can't commandeer labor and order factories to be built overnight.
(Theoretically, the solution in liberal democracies would be to pay health care companies to maintain the potential to expand capacity, like we pay farmers not to grow crops. I'm sure we could have a huge off-topic conversation about whether that would actually work, so let's just leave it at "theoretically.")