#Capacity

Samuel Brown

DrSamuelBrown

A point about “capacity.” There’s capacity and there’s capacity. There’s a surge beyond capacity that leads to formal government-directed rationing of life support. That’s the extreme end and apocalyptic in

Alex T-Ho-Ho-Ho-mson

AlexBThomson

There's been some discussion on #MHTwitter about assessing capacity in regard to people being suicidal. I will try and explain the issues and my opinion in a short thread1/ "Capacity

Health Nerd

GidMK

Something that has been annoying me all pandemic is this idea of ICU beds and capacityIt's often painted as having [x] number of beds, all of which are available for

Josh Schultz

joshuamschultz

Sometimes people miss what automation is about.It isn't to make things easierIt isn't because is new or tech-forwardIt isn't an end of itselfIts a tool... One of many...For the purpose

David Moscrop

David_Moscrop

Gutting state capacity and undermining belief that the state can get things done has been a project -- undertaken for decades. Lowered expectations, diminished capacity.Then we lament that the state

Dodge 😷

seidodge

I might have a new favourite

david oliver

mancunianmedic

I have an MA in Healthcare Ethics & Law and have written/taught on applications to care of older people but that illicit video on Facebook of uninvited visitors trying to

William Marchant

richonlyinname

That we've already seen four NISMs this winter but the capacity mechanism auctions always clear for loose change is a gentle reminder that we don't have a capacity problem, we

John Bye

_johnbye

The government recently admitted its labs are struggling to meet demand, forcing them to ration access to testing to reduce delays and voided tests.Headline capacity figures look like they have

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

The phrase "rationing of care" should strike fear & dread in everyone. And it's happening right now. In the US. It's going to get much, much worse in the coming

Jereami

jereami_

Hospitals, much like hotels, build out for occupancy as a primary KPI. Both run through occupancy calculations in planning and development, but hospitals have an advantage as they can manufacture

Sri Thiruvadanthai

teasri

The first thing that strikes an immigrant from the third world is how smoothly things function--things provided by the state. Pavements are clean, roads are smooth, signs are clear. When

Eddie Chu 🧢🍎

eddiechu888

This is a really great question.If we understand the effect of UBI and the economy, we should be able to loosely estimate how high UBI can go without beginning to

el gato malo

boriquagato

it's been a while since we had a good "texas hospitals are about to be overwhelmed" story.perhaps that's because the worst looks to have passed and no system ever got

nathan

wyattsheepie

Ohio is on a county advisory system for covid. @kylamb8 and I will take a much more detailed looked at this soon, but I wanted to point out one of

Emily VanMeter

vanmetermaid

I spent 4 days down the state capacity rabbit hole and this is what I learned:https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1346144331774750724 Most helpful to me: Cingolani (2018) has a great review article breaking down the

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