04-21-2020, 02:14 AM
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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
Hospitals are overwhelmed in a bad flu season, as in two years ago.
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Other than NY, NJ and MI, I haven't heard of any hospitals being overwhelmed by covid19, thankfully.
In 2018 hospitals were overwhelmed with flu patients.
In 2020 only three states had hospitals full up.
Apparently COVID-19 isn’t “just the flu.” “Just the flu” is even worse.
If that’s the case, we should need even less PPE for healthcare workers this year, and yet, we’re told there’s not enough and workers have gone shifts without?
What am I missing here?
I'm more than willing to disagree with you about some aspect of covid19, as it seems that's your focus here since you overlooked the distinction I made between flu season and covid season.
During flu seasons hospitals are not otherwise shut down to strictly deal with flu, that's why a bad flu season can overwhelm them. With Covid, the hospitals have shut down and they've still been overwhelmed, but just in a few cities.
Clearly, covid presents a greater challenge to the health care shystem, and who knows how bad it would have been without lockdown measures?
PPE use is also much greater with covid than flu.