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[quote=Anonymous]Agreed. Here are my two posts from the MCPS forum on the subject:

Time to close MCPS.

We need to close this week of March 9th (for a duration as yet undetermined) to slow down the epidemic in our area in order to treat all patients as best we can.

We cannot afford to wait until testing comes back positive for hundreds of students. By that time, they will have greatly accelerated the viral spread and contaminated thousands of people. While most won’t take up a hospital bed, hospitals will be overwhelmed - they’re operating at capacity right now because of flu - and at-risk patients will die preventable deaths because they won’t be looked after properly.

Governments and business also need to operate at reduced capacity and encourage telework as much as possible.

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It's a question of hospital capacity.

The total number of COVID-19 cases requiring hospitalization + the expected number of patients needing hospitalization from other causes should be smaller than or equal to the total number of beds, in any given area, at any given time.

We cannot stop the epidemic. We can slow its spread by closures, quarantines and systematic social distancing so that all patients can have the best level of care. Otherwise patients will die from lack of medical supervision (personnel will be stretched thin, exhausted and overwhelmed), and lack of medical equipment and resources. Not just COVID-19 patients, but ALL patients in hospitals. Patients sick from cancer, flu, pneumonia, the labor and delivery ward, the ones with broken bones from car accidents, etc... Viruses spread like wildfire in hospital settings.

Yes, we are buying time. Time that will save lives. It could be your own.

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