We did, in many cases, had overwhelmed medical systems at the local peaks, which were not nationally synchronized.
> Remember the military hospital ships that were sent to NY and LA? They never saw a single COVID patient?
You mean the ones that the military explicitly restricted to not taking COVID patients?
Yeah, I remember that. Funny how they never saw any COVID patients.
“ By the time of Comfort’s departure, the approximately 1,200-person crew and 1,000-bed hospital had treated just 182 patients, of which approximately 70 percent had COVID-19”
So I guess we were both wrong.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/04/30/hospital...
Mercy treated 77 patients and was not reconfigured for COVID, Comfort treated more after being converted to COVID just before local cases dropped from their peak for the wave the ship was present for.
It completed reconfiguration to take COVID patients on April 7, just before new cases in both NYC and NYS started rapidly dropping. It almost entirely missed the time it was needed.
I think they are both evidence that both the response and the systems for utilizing new resources wet optimized for the real needs, but neither shows that healthcare systems weren't overwhelmed.
Er, how was I wrong, again?
Yet 70% of the 182 patients had COVID.
Hospitals cancelled and delayed medical procedures around the world due to this: Italy, Spain, the UK, etc.
While the worst case scenarios of healthcare systems on their knees have not panned out, it’s disingenuous to suggest that the impact is imaginary or FUD.
My comment was geared towards America because I’m an American talking on a forum operated by an American company.
Italy can lock down to their heart’s content- that’s their prerogative.
But they haven’t. The prevailing opinion I’m seeing on HN recently is that the US didn’t do a “real” lockdown which is why there are still so many cases. They opine that Americans largely didn’t “comply” with the government orders rendering any potential positive effects from lockdowns moot.
If you take that at face value, then shouldn’t we have had an overwhelmed medical system by now?
The Denver convention center was turned into a makeshift hospital for almost a year. They never had a single patient. My relatives lost their low-paying jobs and are still jobless today.
Remember the military hospital ships that were sent to NY and LA? They never saw a single COVID patient?
At this point I just don’t see any evidence that our healthcare system overwhelmed in any meaningful way. It’s FUD.
Don’t try and post an article about how some random ICU was at 80% capacity. ICUs are designed to be near operating capacity because it’s a waste of resources to over supply.