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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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Lol, I wish.

That’s not even close to remotely accurate.

See: https://data.oecd.org/healtheqt/hospital-beds.htm
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That’s a different metric. Your numbers show hospital beds per thousand.  The chart shows critical care beds (which is what matters most now) per 100,000.  I’ve seen the same numbers cited by multiple sources. [/quote]

There are a total of 46,500 ICU beds in this country. Total, not currently empty. If 30% of americans get the virus then by current estimates that means 5 million will need intensive care. [/quote]

According to this, the number is 94,000+. And the point of social distancing is to spread out the infection curve, so everyone who needs to go to ICU doesn’t do it all at the same time. Most Doctors don’t really want to say this out loud, but we’re not going to stop this virus, and it’s not really a good idea to try. People have to come out of quarantine eventually, and the virus will just explode again.  We need to slow it down, to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed, but we’ve got to build up herd immunity, and right now, the only way is for “some” people to get the virus.[/quote]

You're right about 94k i just looked it up. Math is still terrible and I'm very unsure what you're saying with your last point. Should we send out a first wave of people to become infected?[/quote]

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