I got a routine vaccination yesterday. It took 25 minutes: the technician typing stuff from paper forms I filled out into a computer and puzzling over whatever nonsense it regurgitated.
US healthcare is obscenely expensive because it’s mostly bullshit make-work like this.
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Yes, that part is directly relevant to our current situation, as
@WilliamAEden pointed out a few days ago.https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1234918824987811840 … -
I've since happened upon a WHO nCov PDF "Operational Support & Logistics — Disease Commodity Package" Basically "this is what hospitals need to treat
#COVID". It lists a flow splitter for the oxygen concentrator but NOT for the ventilator. PDF: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/dcp--ncov.pdf …pic.twitter.com/U76aYXlWxc
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If COVID puts hundreds of thousands of people in hospitals, tying up 80% of their resources on filling in forms will be catastrophic.
Preparing legislation for “you can skip all that nonsense during the crisis” is urgent.