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Coronavirus: Who Gets a Hospital Bed?

CaseInterview.com

This has major implications for who gets a hospital bed during the current coronavirus epidemic. In an earthquake (the MCI scenario we train for most), it might take many hours to get a patient to a hospital and doing CPR for that length of time is extremely resource-intensive. Let me explain. ambulances).

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Coronavirus: Analysis, Conclusions & Takeaways

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Living in the Seattle metro area in Washington state, much of my attention has been focused on the coronavirus. During the early weeks of the coronavirus, the case fatality rate was much higher than it is now. Second, local hospitals in Wuhan were completely overwhelmed with patients. That’s not life-threatening.

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Save Lives vs. Save the Economy

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I’ve spent hundreds of hours pouring over the epidemiological data, COVID-19 treatment protocols in multiple hospitals, and built my own forecasting model. On the other hand, the coronavirus is so widespread in the United States right now and growing exponentially. I’m going to give you two answers to that question.

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To My Friends: What You Can Do (#staythefuckhome)

Kai Davis

By the end of the month, many more hospitals across Europe and the USA will be where Northern Italy is – overwhelmed and with doctors and nurses dying from the disease too. Hospitals in the USA are already preparing for this by adding tents in parking lots. It’s a race against time, and we have much less time than most people realize.

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