Also, beginning a model where patients are steered by disease level to hospitals such that e.g. mild patients aren’t in same facility as severe patients, etc. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20200416/k10012389841000.html …
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I would like to reiterate: If you live in Tokyo or are responsible for people who do, you should comport yourself consistent with a belief that Tokyo is very likely to have a scenario similar to New York. (Tokyo is unlikely to be the only city with a similar experience.)
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Wait, can they do that? O_o
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Given incubation periods (and worse yet, contagious incubations + a non-zero amount of asymptomatic infections), no. Not even in Japan. OTOH, this is entirely reasonable/practical.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1250831371053830144 …
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Some large cities in the US have 3 or more hospitals. Wouldn’t it be wise to have CV19 designated hospitals and keep at least one hospital as free of CV19 as possible for non CV19 cases? I hope that is what Japan is doing. They did it in Wuhan.
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Our hospitals in Michigan filled up too fast with covid-19 patients to do that.
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That latter sentence is the biggest reason why we cannot "open up" and return to the economic status quo ante of December 2019. Even if economies could be flipped on and off like a light switch, an overwhelmed health care system doth not an instant "booming" economy make.
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As well as thousands extra dying. Some say more and more deaths would actually hurt our economy worse than a shut down.
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