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In a world with perfect planning, yes it would have made more sense for us to expand our healthcare so that we could withstand something like this. But we didn'
by greedo 7y ago
In a world with perfect planning, yes it would have made more sense for us to expand our healthcare so that we could withstand something like this. But we didn't. We made our bed, and we have to use what we have in hand.
We can't create enough bed space, vents, ECMOs, in the next 6 months. We can't train enough doctors, nurses, etc in 6 months. So we play the hand we're dealt, and choose a mitigation strategy that doesn't result in 70M worldwide fatalities (6M in the US).
- jbob2000 7y agoWhy 6 months? How much money does it take to do it in 1 month? Is that amount of money less than trillions of dollars?
- cayleyh 7y agoIt's not a cost issue. It's supply & capacity issue. You cannot create instant supply immediately, even with a trillion dollars.
- svanderbleek 7y agoLower requirements by having virus treatment staff with rapid specialized training
- greedo 7y agoIt usually takes a doctor between 7-10 years to get licensed. Sure you can change requirements, but do you want someone just out of med school working in ICU without adequate supervision, making complex assessments and treatments? The pipeline for both nurses and doctors is just severely constrained.