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Originally Posted by mr. tegu
The main concern has always been hospitals being overrun. That hasn’t happened so that alone gives pause to anything suggesting the whole thing has been botched as some sort of definitive statement. That’s what I’m commenting on. The details and strategies of things to learn and improve and change will always be there but presence of needs for improvement doesn’t equal whole thing mishandled.
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Yes keeping hospitals from being overrun was a huge concern. But ideally that was a ceiling not a target.
If a hospital has ICU beds for every covid patient but it has to put off semi elective heart surgery. Or peoplewith mildly worrying chest pains don't get checked out because of the state of the hospital, that is bad even if the hospital isn't completely overwhelmed.
And NYC was overwhelmed. It wasn't as bad as the direst forecasts but it was still bad.
Better testing might have resulted in NYC shutting down sooner and having a better outcome.
Better testing may have allowed some places to wait longer before completely shutting down.
So I think calling the initial response bad because of the botched testing regime is reasonable.