We've had to massively scale up the number of doctors and nurses before - in WWII. Learning was substantially accelerated and abridged, and the population was b

We've had to massively scale up the number of doctors and nurses before - in WWII. Learning was substantially accelerated and abridged, and the population was being drafted so being a doctor might sound better than being a combat soldier. I don't think this would work here though, since enlisting to work in a covid ward is a hard sell when you're not being drafted, and standard of care would suffer with all the inexperience. Substantially raising nursing pay and increasing the powers of nurse practitioners would be a good idea though.