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Originally Posted by dirk digler
My next door neighbor died the other day, not because of covid directly. He had a fall, busted his knee bad and had some issues because of it. He was in the hospital a couple of weeks and they tried to find him an ICU bed but none were open in the 6 state region.
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This is what a collapse of the hospital system looks like.
No, it doesn't have to mean the doors are shut and people are bleeding to death in the parking lot.
It means the system can't provide the level of critical care that it used to and real people suffer real consequences.
This is why in the short term we want to spread out the current wave of cases.
And in the medium/long term it would probably be useful if society could figure out how to entice more medical workers into and staying in the system.