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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A ray of hope for the US, our high number of critical care beds.

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5% of the ill patients need critical care.  35 beds per 100,000 is very different than 5% (5,000 people).[/quote]

Your math is based on illogicality. 100% of the population is not getting the virus. Not even in Wuhan.  :roll: [/quote]

The problem is if 100 percent of the [b]people who are going to get Corona get it [u]at the same tim[/u]e[/b].  No one says all humans will get it.  The problem is TIMING.[/quote]

Well, we have three times the hospital beds for critical care than Italy does. And apparently the Italian average was even lower in Northern Italy, where the virus is heavily concentrated. The Italian problem was insufficient hospital resources for the very sick. American healthcare has long been proclaimed as wasteful and extravagant and filled with excessive facilities and resources, but this is the one time where it's going to help us. [/quote]

Italy hasn’t reached the bottom yet even the entire country is on lockdown. I don’t think we should be looking to Italy to compare. We have estimates how many people will get sick and when and how many beds and ventilators there are. That’s the data we should use to see how bad this might get.

I also wonder about how things will compare by city. Do New York Cory and Salt Lake City have the same number of beds and ventilators per person? I think n that’s unlikely. [/quote]

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