04-20-2020, 01:46 PM
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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
It's true, it's true!
This discussion started with a comparison between the flu & COVID-19.
Is COVID-19 worse than the flu?
Someone pointed out that hospitals were overwhelmed with patients, which doesn’t occur in a normal flu season.
Someone else countered that, no, in fact hospitals are not overwhelmed, they are laying people off.
Hospitals are laying off staff in areas not related to the treatment of COVID-19 patients. But does that indicate they’re not at all busy treating COVID-19 patients, or is it that they’re focused mainly on treating COVID-19 patients?
You might also ask, if hospitals are no more busy than in a normal flu season, why do healthcare workers have a shortage of PPE? Have you ever heard of a PPE shortage in a normal flu season?
Hospitals are overwhelmed in a bad flu season, as in two years ago. They're chronically operating on the edge, and their unpreparedness for a disease pandemic has been noted in the past.
Difference being, during a flu season the ordinary operating procedures are not suspended as they have been during this pandemic.
Other than NY, NJ and MI, I haven't heard of any hospitals being overwhelmed by covid19, thankfully.
Hospitals have spend a great deal of money hastily preparing for covid19. These extra expenditures coupled with loss of revenue from a suspension of elective procedures has left many of them financially strapped.