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They simply don't have enough doctors and nurses. You can't train up the kind of people needed here over a summer.
by CydeWeys 6y ago
They simply don't have enough doctors and nurses. You can't train up the kind of people needed here over a summer.
- dehrmann 6y agoWe'll obviously give nurses more patients, though a nurses' group is pushing back. https://www.abc10.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/california-nurses-patient-ratio/103-494ece17-1818-43d4-82c0-58dfa68197cf https://www.abc10.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/califo... I wonder if we could have trained covid medics over three months.
- CydeWeys 6y agoYou can't just give nurses more patients indefinitely though. That reduces the quality of care and leads to more deaths. An intubated patient is literally only being kept alive by machinery 24/7 and needs a high level of nursing care, a level that you don't remotely get if every single nurse is responsible for more than a couple patients. We simply don't have enough medical staff.