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The ICUs aren’t even close to full, and indefinite delays of non-emergency care also has real consequences.

• nomel 7y ago
  There are only about 7,300 ICU beds in California [1]. If we're at 20%, that's only about two doublings before people start being rejected for care. In March, we were seeing a doubling every few days, with ICU requirements following [2]. I'm not disagreeing that we need to let people be infected if we want to achieve herd immunity, but I think it's a tough choice in deciding which portion of the population you put out to partially die, since letting everyone out at once will result in some high R0 value again, and a vaccine may be on the way. These politicians are in a lose-lose situation here. Anything they do will result in someone being harmed. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guidance-management-patients.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guida... [2] https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/28/coronavirus-gov-newsom-says-number-of-patients-in-icus-doubled-overnight/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/28/coronavirus-gov-newso...