Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job

Re:Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job by Filligree on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:56AM (#28074588)

> All the lockdowns started because we didn't want to overwhelm the hospital system. In the US, the hospital system, at least the ERs were already running on fumes. Our politicians have decided it's better to play world police and kill people overseas than invest in community hospitals.

America had more ER capacity than I think any other country on the planet. Perhaps due to a lack of preventative medicine? I don't know, but it shouldn't be due to lack of ER capacity that this is happening.

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Re:Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job by dagsdgfhdgdj on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:42AM (#28075302)

> America had more ER capacity than I think any other country on the planet.

ICU capacity per capita is larger in Germany and Austria at least.

Source: https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/data-insights/intensive-...

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Re:Hospital exec says employees are walking off the job by mdorazio on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:44AM (#28075324)

I'm going to need to see some data to back that claim up. ED crowding has been a major problem in the US, but not really so much in Europe, Hong Kong, etc. [1] If you mean total capacity, that's a bad comparison because the US population is huge compared to most developed countries, so of course if capacity needed is a % of total population then the total capacity will be similarly large.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1553-2712....

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