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> Well if we open up with no restrictions a lot of people will get very sick very quickly. This will overwhelm hospitals. The problem is that the public has be
by just-juan-post 6y ago
> Well if we open up with no restrictions a lot of people will get very sick very quickly. This will overwhelm hospitals.
The problem is that the public has been hearing this for almost 9 months now and with the exception of a hospital or two it hasn't happened. You can only cry wolf so many times.
> I mean we are almost at a complete ICU collapse right now already.
Besides a few one off stories could you please provide HN readers with some links?
> And a lot of people will die, not just of covid but of other treatable diseases.
They already are and do you know why? Because hospitals stopped doing "unessential" procedures for months and continue to do so.
> Not to mention we will run out of PPE and medical supplies.
Could you please share an article or three with HN readers where a single hospital has run out of PPE in the USA?
> More doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists will get sick and die.
If Covid is so powerful then why haven't tens of thousands of nurses and doctors died? They are exposed to do multiple times per day.
Look forward to your reply!
- sjg007 6y agoAll of the answers you seek are in this article. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4
- wildleaf 6y agoIf you have friends or family in the medical field then ask them. There are frequent email updates from hospital leadership on the state of the ICU. In our area doctors are being asked to give up their time off and work unlimited hours (as long as the avg is 80 per week each month). We've had 1 hospital provided N-95 since the beginning of the pandemic. It's filthy and probably ineffective at this point. The last update said there were something like 13 beds remaining.