Speaking approximately for the benefit of people not familiar with the medical system: Primary care: neighborhood doctor office. No in-patient or emergency capability. Secondary care: smallish hospitals. In-patient capability. Some limited emergency medicine.
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Tertiary care: Typically large, well-resourced hospitals. Likely first point of call if you have a prompt high-severity emergency. There are less than 300 in the entire nation, so 10 being closed is a Big Deal, particularly because there’s no possible way it is only 10.
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Note that this is particularly concerning news in “the regions” (non-metropolitan areas) because they might have one tertiary hospital covering several cities / a wide territory. It’s very bad news if that one has to turn away ambulances.
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Also note that tertiary care facilities are not coextensive with the specially designated class of facilities which are supposed to treat high-level infectious diseases. That is considered a speciality requiring specialized staff, equipment, and training; not generally present.
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“How are capacity levels at those facilities looking?” http://stopcovid19.jp a reasonably good visual approximation or you can read NHK’s reporting which comes to a very similar conclusion.
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NHK’s reporting. In particular, see the tweet immediately after this one.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1252836409406152709 …
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whoever's approving tests is getting yelled at
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yikes... hoping for the best
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