True or false: The extra hospital capacity the United States added for #Covid remained 95-100% unused in New York City and 99-100% unused everywhere else before it was dismantled?
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I dunno... but of all the mistakes made in a panicked response to the virus, possibly the least offensive or problematic is over-building out healthcare supply in the face of an unknown virus! It’s all relative, I grant you.
Fair - but the rub is that the last 6.5 months was to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed, they were never close, and WE STILL HAVE RESTRICTIONS for a goal that has always been reached.
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It still cost a whole lotta money that we the taxpayer funded while out of work
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Would you consider prolonged severe shutdowns of small businesses one of the mistakes?
Seems like that could’ve been handled better given Walmart came out the big winner?
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With the new knowledge gathered about this virus, pop up hospital tents are likely a safer environment to eliminate the virus. More fresh circulating air than in a closed room.
If it's such a healthcare crisis, how come there are 63,000 fewer people working in hospitals than one year ago and almost 900,000 fewer in healthcare overall?
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Least offensive until you add up the cost of it and then it gets at least a little offensive.
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