You can't magically expand hospital capacity because it's not just space: we're short of qualified medical staff and multiple regions with spikes limits transfers. Plus medical personnel have been at it since March. And many coronaviruses are seasonal—this may well be another.
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The whole point of "flatten-the-curve" in March was to give us some breathing space while hospitals caught up with the cases, advanced their knowledge, and our governments put in the proper infrastructure. Not spend the rest of the year in magical-thinking land. What a tragedy.
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I don't understand what the UK is doing, either. You can only travel five miles (what happens to the virus in mile six? Is it afraid of distances?) but you CAN go into an indoor pub, but you must be seated (virus has vertigo?). What is the logic? https://twitter.com/mcelhearn/status/1320699357608448002 …
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When/if a place overruns hospital capacity, we see people delaying crucial treatment & preventive care, and being under-treated. And we're heading into flu season in the Northern hemisphere (Europe, too). I get that some fumbling is unavoidable early on but this is just failure.
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Right, except this is about seven months behind the science—well, nine for Japan. Distance isn't protective enough indoors, especially in a poorly-ventilated pub. And the number of miles between houses or the pub is irrelevant to the virus.https://twitter.com/murakamiwood/status/1320701323982098432 …
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Yep, we may teach germ theory in schools, but our hearts have not moved away from illness as sin. Governments seem to think if we can just punish and scold people and prevent fun, we can overcome this—instead of, you know, treating it like a pathogen.https://twitter.com/HikingHack/status/1320702245013495809 …
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Second day with above thousand deaths reported for the United States. And this, with much better therapeutics and clinical practice. And we're headed into fall/winter and more indoors.https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1321946899918647297 …
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I read yesterday Utah hospitals are at the point where ICU patients who aren't improving fast enough are sent home to make room for new patients.
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funny how when this happened in italy it made headlines here but now there isnt a peep from the media
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Made this to compare the (bad) COVID situation we have in Belgium with the one the US:https://twitter.com/StijnTallir/status/1320284086850695168?s=19 …
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We dealt with our early horrible outbreak in New York, instituted good policy for the whole state. But we can only hold out so long against the spread from other states.
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