You 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 onl

You 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.