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If you wind up in the ICU, it may be 2-4 weeks before you can be released, regular hospital beds don't count. You also have to assume how many assisted breathin
by coldcode 7y ago
If you wind up in the ICU, it may be 2-4 weeks before you can be released, regular hospital beds don't count. You also have to assume how many assisted breathing systems (respirators/ventilators etc) are available. You can't simply assume the number of beds are available either since people may already have some other serious issue and be in one. In China they constructed massive hospitals out of large spaces on the fly, something I can't see happening in our for profit system, so the capacity is not likely to be very flexible at expanding quickly enough.
- karlkatzke 7y agoThe US does have the ability to set up large quarantine hospitals on the fly, but they are in tents. These are the same type of military tents that were/are used for migrant internment on the border. I'm struggling to find a name for the group that I participated in an exercise with, but in my volunteer Search and Rescue days I was a 'victim' for a practice exercise of deploying a tent hospital for a combined human and animal pandemic. The ability to set up these hospitals is there, what isn't there is the skilled nursing staff for ICU patients, or ventilators for patients who needed them. I'm really not sure how China handled that portion of caring for those that fell ill.
- AstralStorm 7y agoThe problem being required large number of ventilators which even US will have problems delivering in such case. Only China has the hardware on hand.