1/ A week back or so, Eric Ding was retweeting bigly about nurses & medicos in Belgium being asked to work on despite being acutely infected with #COVID19. I pointed out at the time, that already happens in the USA.
"is allowing", huh, o rly.
"is allowing", huh, o rly.
https://twitter.com/carlzimmer/status/1326196877390475264
2/ Someone asked me some days previously to give an estimate on when North Dakota and South Dakota hospitals would start getting overwhelmed by #COVID19. I played on the safe side, said around 3 weeks from that day of my prediction, quite possibly 2 weeks. A *safe* prediction
3/ Hospitals, ER's & ICU's get swamped by #COVID19 in several different ways:
a/ simple number of patients needing hospital care all at same time;
b/ doctors & nurses lost to either acute COVID_19 illness or to death caused by that;
c/ lack of sufficient PPE (see b/), oxygen, etc
a/ simple number of patients needing hospital care all at same time;
b/ doctors & nurses lost to either acute COVID_19 illness or to death caused by that;
c/ lack of sufficient PPE (see b/), oxygen, etc
4/ Morgues over-filled is a different matter (I'm focusing on ICU beds). But a very important one, of course, unless you really like inconvenient piles of decomposing corpses. Geneva, Switzerland, but an issue that hits everywhere when the virus runs riot
https://twitter.com/itosettiMD_MBA/status/1326573202101981184
5/ #SouthDakota, today, #SouthDaCovid. Reminder: even if median age of the infected is low, they go onto infect others, meaning hospitalizations and deaths WILL climb even if with lag.
https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1326383188223078406
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