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Originally Posted by Monticore
I don’t agree with doing that but you can still put some of the blame for this situation on them.
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The blame game has multiple layers.
Hospitals trusted to budget / plan based on the data they were provided. In March they were told vaccinated people would not get sick or transmit the virus. They were also basing it on the RO of 2.5 / 4 that the original strain / alpha had.
Here comes delta and screwed everyone.
Vaccines don’t stop transmission (thankfully they curve serious illness)
R0 of 8 comes along sweeping up what didn’t get sick in the past 12 months
Staffing Burnt out
Staffing Fired due to mandates
The influx is the same as it was last summer, they had a backlog of people that were put on a waiting list for selective surgery.
It’s a combination of things - there is plenty of blame to go around.
Science changes, data changes… and we acted like the vaccines would be a magical bullet. It was sold that way all the way to the President (not political as it didn’t matter who the prez was) and that messaging killed us.