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The quality sure can, if you can catch COVID and increase your mortality by going to the hospital. We saw this in the early days of both Wuhan and later NYC. T
by bobthepanda 4y ago
The quality sure can, if you can catch COVID and increase your mortality by going to the hospital.
We saw this in the early days of both Wuhan and later NYC. The beds overfilled, then the hallways, then it start spilling into surrounding streets, and then the armed forces had to be called in to set up makeshift hospitals.
- xyzzyz 4y agoNone of the makeshift military hospitals were actually used in NYC. They were only set up in the interest of preparedness, but they did not end up being necessary.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoIf a hospital is saturated then by definition no more people can further enter the hospital. There's a physical limit to how many people can fit inside a hospital, and that limit is the saturation point, at least in my definition. It's possible that a mildly sick patient became a moderately sick patient because they received some disease while within the premises that they otherwise wouldn't have. And in an extreme scenario, hospitals could possibly kick out moderately sick patients to accommodate even more severely sick patients, which could cause the former to spread diseases to otherwise healthy people. But this seems highly likely.