Re:Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine...
by orbifold on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @03:10AM
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I had to google the ratio of patients to nurses in various countries, because 2:1 seemed very low. In Germany it is 13:1 under normal circumstances and according to a German newspaper it is 5.3 : 1 on average in the US. So something very unusual is going on at your wives hospital or the number of ICU nurses per patient is just higher than in normal stations.
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Re:Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine...
by markbnj on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @03:16AM
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It could be that it's a small regional hospital, or it could be something else, I don't know. It could be that the statistics are measuring something different. She's been on the cardiac critical care unit (converted to negative pressure covid-19 ICU beds for the duration) for 12 years so I suspect she's at least as aware of the normal ratio as google.