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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| As virus surges, field hospitals emerge across US; now they need staff |
| 2020-04-05 |
| [IsraelTimes] Parking lots, convention centers, sports arenas converted to medical complexes, but authorities face dire shortage of staff as they brace for coming storm. Convention centers, sports arenas, and parking lots from Los Angeles to Miami are being urgently converted into makeshift hospitals as US authorities brace for a surge in coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)  ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...patients. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 ..why, why, that would mean THEY would have to pay them for their work. They believe that's the nation's responsibility and money. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-05 15:30 |
| #6 Doctors, at least, have been retiring in numbers for years, a combination of the baby boomers retiring and doctors tired of dealing with health insurance nonsense that started a decade before Obamacare. As for Hizzoner of New York City, they have a registry of 10,000 retired and private medical professionals willing to help out in exactly such an emergency, according to the NY Post. Has he called on them yet? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-04-05 11:16 |
| #5 #1, exactly. Just a LITTLE context for these politicians' statements would go a long way. I had no idea the mayor of New York had so little power or resources. |
| Posted by: Tom 2020-04-05 09:55 |
| #4 Apparently, full-employment act for Filipinos? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-05 08:27 |
| #3 Trained staff is going to be the bigger problem than equipment and supplies. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-04-05 08:26 |
| #2 Sorry, Mr. Mayor, if this pandemic interrupted your two hour workouts. |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-04-05 08:02 |
| #1 "I asked the president and the military over a week ago for 1,000 nurses, 150 doctors, 300 respiratory therapists," Mayor Bill de Blasio. "I don’t have anything yet." A city of 6.8 million people, about the same population as Switzerland, cannot surge and locate the medical professionals it needs ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-05 07:20 |