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I agree completely, with the addition that this has been the case pretty much from the start. Evolution of therapies has been minimal, the killer factor has alw
by toyg 5y ago
I agree completely, with the addition that this has been the case pretty much from the start. Evolution of therapies has been minimal, the killer factor has always been the level of pressure on health services - which doesn't just mean ventilators as initially thought, but the entire care process over several days. And this is why vaccines are a game changer: they remove the need for hospitalization.
- ethbr0 5y agoAlso, obligatory: staff. Which is to say the health care system is sized for employing enough highly-trained trauma / ICU staff to support normal operations, with some small (very small) amount of surge capacity. And people under-estimate the specialization & experience required for high-level ICU and respiratory care. You can't just take a floor nurse and transfer them over to do the new work. And the amount of complex hospitalizations due to COVID can very quickly become a couple orders of magnitude above "normal operations."