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How come resources are still low two years into the pandemic? If the situation is so grave, wouldn't something be done by now? Could it be possible that you're
by postsantum 5y ago
How come resources are still low two years into the pandemic? If the situation is so grave, wouldn't something be done by now? Could it be possible that you're attacking wrong people?
- dredmorbius 5y agoThe problem with infectious disease is that incidence rates vary tremendously over time. Growth is initially exponential. In the case of the Covid Omicron variant, doubling times are 2.3 days, giving 10x growth in 1 week, 100x growth in 2. Any reasonable capacity is immediately overwhelmed. With uncontrolled spread, major fractions of the population are infected at the same time, and even with "mild" variants of a disease, a small fraction of a very large number remains a large number. The excess capacity required to serve a severe outbreak is necessary only for those periods of peak outbreaks. China saw emergency treatment facilities built within two weeks, and demolished several months later. Structures can be scaled with some efficacy. Staff and equipment (remember the ventilator shortages) not so much. And again, the peak loads are far above any long-term maintenance level. Graphically represented here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic#/media/File%3A20200410_Flatten_the_curve%2C_raise_the_line_-_pandemic_(English).gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic#/media/File%...
- dude187 5y agoHospitals are strained most Winters. There's really nothing special about right now