2 years into the pandemic they can’t figure out how to have efficient tests…I somehow bet that this isn’t an issue in Singapore, Japan, Chiba etc; just a thought. Why in the US an “ER” is “clogged” with people who just want a test but can otherwise stay home is unclear
https://twitter.com/dr_dmorgan/status/1477041487867219968
I’ve taken a few tests in the US, one was at a temporary drive thru at a hospital in Portland, Maine, another at a curbside of a health clinic and another at a drive thru of a health clinic in NY…they were all PCR tests…so why they can’t just have a cubicle outside?
You’d think two years into this basic things could be solved. It’s like if they’d told you 2 years into WWII they still couldn’t build a tank or B-17 in America…you’d wonder…
My theory on most stories in the US during the pandemic is the failures are either due to A) incompetence, B) the stories aren’t completely accurate, C) it’s virtue signaling to get other people to do something.
A lot of it is apparently incompetence of big institutions
A lot of it is apparently incompetence of big institutions
You’ve got the wealthiest country in the world and other western wealthy countries with hospitals always “overwhelmed” two years in…while in China in the first weeks they built a hospital in Wuhan just for this issue. How come no western countries said “ok let’s do that”
In some instances in the US they even had deployed things like a hospital ship and didn’t use it, preferring to send patients to nursing homes…another bizarre choice that other places didn’t do. It’s just inexplicable again and again.
Add to that a problematic health care and insurance system and fearmongering and bad messaging and conspiracies etc
It’s not just the US of course, in Israel media says hospitals are at 130% capacity without the current wave straining them…WHY….because some democracies just can’t get health care right. It’s always overwhelmed and strained and shortages
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