Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals

Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by brenden2 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:01AM (#22694179)

They're bad, but if you put it into the context of normal daily life it's not that crazy. Check out the CDC stats[1] yourself. On average there are about ~1700 deaths per day from heart disease alone in the US, according to the CDC data.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by ceejayoz on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:03AM (#22694197)

If heart disease deaths were contagious and increasing by 33% daily, that'd be a great point.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by Symmetry on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:04AM (#22694212)

If the number of heart disease deaths doubled every 3 days I would take heart disease much more seriously than I do now.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by daveFNbuck on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:03AM (#22694196)

None of those other numbers are doubling every three days.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by sp332 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:08AM (#22694256)

And now that number is going to go up because medical care is less available.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by 49para on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:31AM (#22694519)

Those numbers are going to go up if your hospitals are overwhelmed.

Additionally, a very large percentage of health care workers will catch the virus, this will further reduce the amount of capacity.

Loss of health care workers could be a long term issue as well given the CFR in a place like Italy.

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Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals by DougBTX on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:13AM (#22694304)

https://xkcd.com/2278/

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