"Americans are dying of COVID-19 who, had they gotten sick a month earlier, would have lived."

It is happening. Hospitals are being overwhelmed.

Present tense, not future.

Read @alexismadrigal and @yayitsrob's latest. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/the-worst-case-scenario-is-happening-hospitals-are-overwhelmed/617301/

We warned about this. It was utterly foreseeable. I wrote this 2.5 weeks ago.

Here's the thing: hospitalization data are like a smoke alarm that detects smoke from several weeks ago.

When it goes off, your house is already burning down. https://twitter.com/edyong209/status/1328053977720758273

I just saw someone argue that this reflects a failure of hospitals to prepare for the winter, so I'm just going to re-up this piece about what's happening to perhaps the best-prepared hospital in the country, and then scream into the void again. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/11/americas-best-prepared-hospital-nearly-overwhelmed/617156/