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Originally Posted by Donger
Our hospitals deal with about 300,000 patients with influenza a year, right?
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There are something like 30k available ICU beds in the whole country right now. And even less ventilators and the saturated oxygen that people very sick with coronavirus need.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/h...ronavirus.html
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“All the hospitals are taxed with a large flu season and other bugs,” said Dr. Mark Jarrett, the chief quality officer for Northwell Health, which operates 23 hospitals across Long Island and elsewhere in New York. About 400 patients are coming to its emergency rooms each day with flulike symptoms.
“Everybody is at maximum capacity,” Dr. Jarrett said.
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