"empty hospitals that need to furlough workers because they are so underworked" This seems to be a meme, but I think it started with misinterpretation of elect

"empty hospitals that need to furlough workers because they are so underworked" This seems to be a meme, but I think it started with misinterpretation of elective procedures being cancelled and employees that couldn't be repurposed being furloughed. It doesn't make any sense to equate this with hospital resources in general being plentiful. The point of no elective procedures is that some resources are freed up. Bottlenecks aren't applicable to everything equally.