US will run out of hospital beds by May 6 (must read!)

But, but, but, Trump said the virus is a nothing burger.

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I just want to clarify things.

Hospitals beds aren't a large giant pot where you can lump everyone into the mix.

It's regional.

Generally, crews will not fly or ambulance someone over 30-50 miles to another facility unless it is considered a EMTALA situation.


So you must look at beds from the immediate areas of hospital access.

Northern California different than Oregon, but northern Oregon does overload with Seattle Metropolitan area. So the ability for patients to overload their hospital and spill over to the next county is available or state depending on the true access and availability.

South Korea is a good example of this where we are very certain that local hospitals were saturated and spilover occured. But because of their efforts, their numbers appeared to have plateaued and are going downwards.

If there is no such efforts in the united states, beds will exhaust at a regional level relative to when the critical mass of ongoing infections occured. If there is confirmed unknown tranmission cases, that is the beginning.

Thread: Mortality Rates will Skyrocket once America's medical system is overloaded to WUHAN/IRAN levels

Indeed.

The nothing burgers want a real date, we’ll there you have it. Or sooner, as Trin wrote, because she assumes doubling every 6 days but it has been doubling every three.

Don’t worry the AF will give you about 40 different kinds of vaccinations and shots. You’ll be good till end of your enlistment. The military gets the good stuff.

I might be wrong, but from what I have heard I do not think that the virus is able to survive nearly as well in warmer temperatures. We are so close to spring now in the US and the entire country is starting to warm up for the most part now, and barring some ice age type of event it definitely will in the months to come. Even though this virus seems like it tends to be sensationalized, I believe it is pretty similar to the flu in a lot of ways given that just as many people if not more die of the flu each year. It just doesn't get reported by the media or sensationalized like the Corona Virus because the flu isn't exactly new from my understanding of things. I may be completely wrong about this, but from my understanding and the things that I've read and/or heard I get the feeling that this really isn't going to be any bigger than any of the other viruses that have hit humanity and passed in the past (and that includes all the terrible ones like the Black Death - meaning that I don't think it's nearly as bad or will be nearly as bad as anything like that).