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It's not a pipe dream. It's just that it needs to happen in a different way. We need to massively increase number of isolation rooms, icu beds etc. (just like
by hcknwscommenter 7y ago
It's not a pipe dream. It's just that it needs to happen in a different way. We need to massively increase number of isolation rooms, icu beds etc. (just like China did building that hospital in 10 days), massively increase number of clinicians (take every one in their last year of nursing school and med school and get them in the hospital, not making decisions but carrying out basic tasks; use a draft if you have to, just like Italy did), and massively increase testing capacity (~4x from today's capacity in US), and massively increase ventilators, add ubiquitous temperature checking (to enter any building other than your house, you need to confirm temp) and then just open up the economy and let it rip. With enough testing and enough surge healthcare capacity, we can do this.