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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys are so cute with concern about education continuing.

ICUs are soon going to be overwhelmed.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/06/812967454/u-s-hospitals-prepare-for-a-covid-19-wave

[quote]As the coronavirus spreads in the U.S., public health agencies are starting to worry about hospital capacity.

Overseas, China was forced to build two new hospitals on an emergency basis, and in South Korea earlier this week, the government said over two thousand people were waiting for hospital care.

The potential numbers in the U.S. are daunting. Richard Waldhorn is a pulmonary critical care physician who's studied hospital preparedness for the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Last week, he co-wrote an article arguing that American hospitals should prepare for the possibility of too many patients.

"The arithmetic suggests that we will outstrip hospital resources, particularly instensive care resources, in waves as the pandemic spreads," he says.[/quote]

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He says government planning assumptions based on past flu pandemics suggest a surge in demand for intensive care that could range somewhere between 200,000 thousand and 2.9 million patients.

The American Hospital Association says the total number of Intensive Care Unit beds is about 65,000.

Waldhorn says hospitals can make more ICU beds available in a crisis, perhaps doubling the capacity, but there's still a chance it won't be enough.[/quote]

That's what we are trying to avoid by slowing spread.

Schools WILL CLOSE.  No matter what.    It's just a question of whether we are smart and do it early, while not everyone is infected (and parents can share childcare duties with other parents in relative comfort and safety) or later in the epidemic when schools close reactively.

Watch Germany.

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Agreed.

At this point I think the people wanting life to continue as usual may be trolls, possibly working for other countries (guess which one), or just very low IQ people.

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