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> Luck favors the prepared mind, Then the US should be much better off, because they have about ten times more ventilators than Germany has. But only four time
by 101404 7y ago
> Luck favors the prepared mind,
Then the US should be much better off, because they have about ten times more ventilators than Germany has. But only four times the population.
But, the US was unlucky to have 50% of cases in only one city. So they ran out of ventilators in that one place, while having a surplus elsewhere.
They reacted quickly and correctly by sending hospital ships (much quicker than trying to put ICU beds on trucks).
Of course, compared to the EU, the US is still handling the situation way better.
- adrianN 7y agoUnfortunately the hospital ships are equipped to deal with wartime problems, i.e. trauma victims. They don't help too much in a pandemic.
- 101404 7y agoThey are not there to treat COVID-19, but to lower the "day to day load" of hospitals, so the hospitals have more capacity for COVID-19 patients. At least that's what they said on PBS Newshour.
- ceejayoz 7y agoThat changed about a week ago. https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/04/06/coronavirus-update-usns-comfort-hospital-ship-will-now-accept-covid-19-patients/ https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/04/06/coronavirus-update-u...