Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
by GavinMcG on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:02AM
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Having some hospitals be full is not a system-wide breakdown. Even before COVID emergency rooms would be "on diversion" when particularly busy, and ambulances would go elsewhere.
Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
by hprotagonist on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:31AM
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For about 4-5 hours at a time,max, and believe you me it wreaked utter hell on my nights in the back of the ambulance when it happened.
Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
by GavinMcG on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:51AM
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Mine too!
Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
by nojito on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:05AM
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No patients were ever turned away at NYC hospitals. There is a highly sophisticated patient transfer system in NYC.
Morgue capacity makes sense simply because of the population who was coming down with COVID at the time.
Re:India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first
by bobthepanda on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:54AM
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This makes it seem like not the case: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/nyregion/new-york-new-jer...
> New York, home to the nation’s largest outbreak of Covid-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, is rushing to build a temporary hospital in a Manhattan conference center in the hope of staying ahead of the fast-spreading disease.
> Hospitals in parts of New York City have become so full of critically ill patients that they have steered ambulances elsewhere. The full-to-capacity morgue at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens is using a refrigerated truck to hold some of the dead. Thirteen people died in the hospital in the last 24 hours, said NYC Health + Hospitals, which operates Elmhurst.