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Originally Posted by TLO
Something I keep hearing people talking about is this "massive outbreak" that the hospitals won't be able to handle.
Ok I suppose that this definitely is a possibility. But this thing went undetected in Washington State for 4-6 weeks. Did the hospitals gets overrun during this time? It doesn't seem like it. Yes Washington State has been the hardest hit, but the numbers aren't outrageous horrifying. (Unless you're a much older person)
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Hospitals won’t be able to handle a pandemic. No chance.
The USA had 10K ventilators and ancillary supplies to run them in reserve. The plan is to use hotel rooms and portable oxygen for the ventilators for the more stable patients. The issue will be RT’s to run them. An RT runs 3-5 ventilators and manages the patents. One nurse can possibly do 3-4X times that many patients. But, your going to have 3000 licensed RT’s that are not already employed by hospitals.
And then 10K sounds like a lot of reserve but when you do the math it’s going to get dicey in an pandemic.