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I don't know how you can say that when hospitals have already hit the breaking point. It's not like our health care professionals have been sitting around twidd
by tunesmith 7y ago
I don't know how you can say that when hospitals have already hit the breaking point. It's not like our health care professionals have been sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoOnly a few hospitals in the very worst hotspots have hit the breaking point. I don't mean to say that we could have or should have done nothing, but the idea that there's been some widespread breakdown in medical care is just not accurate.
- artursapek 7y agoThat's not what you'd believe if you watched cable news ;)
- jayd16 7y agoHow can you interpret many countries across the globe facing hospital and ICU bed shortages and not call that widespread?
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoI'd definitely call it widespread. In many places across the world, hospitals faced bed and ICU shortages and had to go to heroic efforts to prevent them. But most of them were successful, remediating their shortages before anyone had to be denied care.
- jayd16 7y agoA shortage means a denial of care took place.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoSure, that's a reasonable definition, in which case it's untrue that more than a handful of places around the world have had a shortage.
- TheCowboy 7y agoWrong. They were more successful if they had proper supplies of masks, citizens cooperative with lockdowns, enough testing capacity, and so on. Otherwise, no, they were having triage when they normally would be able to treat everyone.
- tunesmith 7y agoAnd many more hospitals were only 1-2 doubling periods away from faring as bad or worse. Doubling periods that were avoided because the surrounding regions took the actions they did.