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> All the lockdowns started because we didn't want to overwhelm the hospital system. In the US, the hospital system, at least the ERs were already running on fu
by Filligree 5y ago
> All the lockdowns started because we didn't want to overwhelm the hospital system. In the US, the hospital system, at least the ERs were already running on fumes. Our politicians have decided it's better to play world police and kill people overseas than invest in community hospitals.
America had more ER capacity than I think any other country on the planet. Perhaps due to a lack of preventative medicine? I don't know, but it shouldn't be due to lack of ER capacity that this is happening.
- dagsdgfhdgdj 5y ago> America had more ER capacity than I think any other country on the planet. ICU capacity per capita is larger in Germany and Austria at least. Source: https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/data-insights/intensive-care-beds-capacity https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/data-insights/intensive-...
- mdorazio 5y agoI'm going to need to see some data to back that claim up. ED crowding has been a major problem in the US, but not really so much in Europe, Hong Kong, etc. [1] If you mean total capacity, that's a bad comparison because the US population is huge compared to most developed countries, so of course if capacity needed is a % of total population then the total capacity will be similarly large. [1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01235.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1553-2712....