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Rt>1 means the breakout is growing in size. So no, you don't want business as usual until ICU capacity is near full. If you do that, you're basically destined
by tunesmith 5y ago
Rt>1 means the breakout is growing in size.
So no, you don't want business as usual until ICU capacity is near full. If you do that, you're basically destined to overwhelm ICU capacity.
If you increase ICU capacity, that solves nothing, because you're still satisfied with business as usual until ICU capacity is near full. No matter how big you make ICU capacity, Rt>1 means you will hit that capacity eventually. That's what exponential growth means.
The only answer is to move Rt<1, and you might as well do that sooner rather than later.
- vmception 5y ago> No matter how big you make ICU capacity, Rt>1 means you will hit that capacity eventually. I mean... for a little while until enough of the patients die. I mean that's whats happening. ICU capacity due to COVID is filled overwhelmingly by unvaccinated people who had a choice in the matter for 9 months straight. If there wasn't a choice I would agree with you. What is occurring now is completely tolerable to continue to allow to occur and is the consensus in all states, across the entire political spectrum.
- tunesmith 5y agoRt>1 means that there is a doubling rate of some number of days. Vaccines aren't 100% effective. The more cases, the more breakthrough cases. There are also children under 12. You can't say that all infected people had a choice in the matter, it simply isn't true.