A doctor in the UNC system told me today that pretty much every ICU bed is already taken—without any known coronavirus cases. That, more than the fatality rate alone, is the crisis. In some places, 10% of COVID-19 victims require ICU beds to survive. We have no such capacity.
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I was shocked but more in a 'whoa, like grownups or something' kind of way. Our local government is saying we have 'nothing to worry about' even though one case is a churchgoer at a church that was also a polling station. Sure.
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Precautions are not panic, they are well established, studied and documented protocols that properly executed will save lives and make this *sightly* less of a nightmare for our healthcare folks. Feeling brave doesn't increase our PPE supplies or hospital beds I'm afraid.
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This. Without being reactionary or trying to cause a panic we might need to honestly shut it all down. Two weeks, everyone stay put, so that the CDC and health community can get a head start. Or catch up.
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Sad, but good. Parenthetically, in this statement, "the situation evolved rapidly" means "<expletives> hit the most rapidly spinning wheels hard and heavily"
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Meanwhile in my city/country...https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1235631383911030784?s=19 …
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Given Austin’s tech traffic with San Francisco and Seattle, I wonder if COVID19 could be there already. 40,000 undergrads leaving/coming back from spring break this month probably ups the odds. And SXSW is so many people from multiple continents in tight quarters. Seems risky.
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