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We haven’t gotten it through our skulls that all the extra beds, makeshift event center hospitals, PPE and ventilators in the world won’t make a bit of difference if there aren’t any medical professionals around. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/11/third-surge-breaking-healthcare-workers/617091/
Nor have we gotten it through our skulls that when we go into labor/get into a car wreck/slice our finger off/shatter our leg/have a baby spiking a terrifying fever we’ll be SOL when the hospital’s full of COVID patients.
Coming to a hospital near you: “Last Monday we had 25 patients waiting in the emergency department. They had been admitted but there was no one to take care of them.”
Yet another reason not to be f*cking around in the House: “Choo also studies the impacts of health-care policy, and has found that health-care systems sometimes react to imminent policies months before they are actually come into force.”
Translation: we need for our healthcare system and manufacturers to go out on a financial limb, feeling confident that the Biden administration, with the House controlling the purse, will make full use of the DPA and other common sense actions that should have taken place in Jan.
