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1) Are you seriously asking this? Europe sees huge backlogs of delayed surgeries, e.g. of cancer patient treatments. https://www.scotsman.com/health/coronaviru

1) Are you seriously asking this? Europe sees huge backlogs of delayed surgeries, e.g. of cancer patient treatments. https://www.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/covid-scotland-swift-action-needed-to-prevent-cancer-catastrophe-as-nhs-fails-to-meet-target-3494251 https://www.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/covid-scotland-s... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/26/late-diagnosis-of-breast-cancer-rises-as-nhs-struggles-in-covid-crisis https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/26/late-diagnos... 2) Because you can't improve health care systems within a short time frame. People are quitting their health care jobs in Europe in big numbers due to being overworked due to the pandemic.

jMyles 5y ago
1) Yes I'm seriously asking this. And administratively delayed 'elective' surgeries are orthogonal to patients being turned away after presenting with illness. I don't deny the former is happening, but it is not clear that it is related to capacity. 2) Yes you absolutely can; it has been done with great success many times in epidemics, including this one. Moreover, longer-term improvements to health care remain an imperative if indeed a completely predictable respiratory pathogen can so easily overwhelm capacity in marginalized communities.