If Covid is going to be around for a long time...

Is it not time for hospitals to start building extra facilities to account for this?
Post Comment

Comments (20)

Crematoria will be in demand.
Hello Boh....hopefully not as much as ventilators.
...Or, another option is for private investors to start building facilities. Who knows how corrupt things are in the medical arena...why don't private citizens begin getting involved in healthcare. Or is that not possible due to the restrictions gov't puts in place? dunno Wouldn't surprise me.
Johnny -

Accepting That Covid's Here To Stay & Learning To Live With It -
Forward-Looking countries are doing Exactly That ...
cowboy
Hey Johnny

We’ll have to adjust our thinking about COVID-19 too. The coronavirus is not something we can avoid forever; we have to prepare for the possibility that we will all get exposed one way or another. “This is something we’re going to have to live with,” wine wave
Ysabe -

"It's contagious enough that everyone WILL Get It." (Presumably referring to Delta)
- Andrew Slavitt, Former Sr. Advisor to Biden's Covid Management Team

cowboy
There are now Three types of people -

HAD Covid
HAVE Covid
WILL Have Covid

cowboy
It's probably too simplistic outlook... Build more hospitals will only work if you train more staff to run it. Demand for specialised equipment and services will be in bursts, not a steady/predictable stream.
Covid will be here Forever - It will NOT be a Pandemic Forever.
It'll settle into being Endemic Worldwide with occasional Outbreaks.

F'rinstance -
In the "Living With Covid" vid -
Indonesia is preparing its hospitals to deal with Ongoing Covid.

This is Indonesia's New Case Timeline ...
wow

Note that the Post-Delta Surge numbers are almost Non-Existent compared to the Peak of the Surge.

cowboy
Ysa, I agree with you.

There should be some sort of program or agenda on how we can prepare better for the possible worst case scenario. I would rather prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

wave
Pat....true what you say. But if you train staff and these staff can be almost anybody with the ability to learn....train them to run the equipment, handle symptoms of Covid and provide them with the equipment to be able to contact a doctor at anytime if needed. dunno It would be like a facility specialized to handle Covid patients. Of course, one could add on to hospitals too.

wave
And with so much of the world still vulnerable to infection, the virus has many, many opportunities to luck into new variants that may yet enhance its ability to spread and reinfect. The good news is this virus is unlikely to evolve so much that it sets our immunity back to zero. “Our immune responses are so complex, it’s basically impossible for a virus to escape them all,” sigh sigh sigh
That is true Drae. They could have been working on stuff like this. If you remember, there has been talk of a pandemic now for years. If scientists knew the likelihood of something like this happening in the first place, there should have been better preparation. Now that it is actually happening, maybe better preparation should be done. They are even hinting that it might boil down to where the vaccinate might not be safe....or safer.

dunno

wave
Ysa, let's hope that it does not mutate into some sort of ultimate killer. But prepping in case things get out of hand might not be a bad idea.


wave
Building more hospitals would come with staffing issues but perhaps that's what a war effort should look like. Throwing money at healthcare would have been much cheaper than lockdown, to have factories repurposed rather than stand idle for months in lockdown, doctors and nurses naming their wages cheaper than lockdown.
It's a bit out there, ideas flying here and there. Sorry but they don't all; fly/
Hello Riz,

Thank you for that.

I am writing about the threat of a variant popping up that puts the unjabbed and jabbed together in the same boat. Given the nature of the reporting of these new variants popping up every few months, who knows when the one....or many....will show up to dominate all previous strains. Even this most recent one, there is talk of the jabbed being at severe risk.

wave
Hello CC,

Yes, the lockdown was not great in many different aspects. As far as shortage of staff, I agree. However, your average person could be trained to run equipment and administer medication....that is specifically geared toward Covid patients. In addition, with technology today, I am sure that it could be done safely and with the oversite of a nurse or a doctor if need be.

By the sounds of the most recent news, it does not sound like we are out of the woods yet with this Covid thing....and it sounds like nobody even knows where we are in these woods....are we in the beginning, middle, end...dunno

wave
Hello Pat,

Very true....not all ideas are good at flying. :)


wave
Economy will collapse for certain....
Unless those hot heads scientists find a permanent solution that doesn't kill anybody.
Reminder AstraZeneca that killed over 120 italian folks...
If a vaccine is called safe i suppose nobody should die after being injected with it?
Or safe its just a misconception?
Nor have any side effects....
Post Comment - Let others know what you think about this Blog.
Meet the Author of this Blog
Johnny_Sparton

Johnny_Sparton

Williamston, Michigan, USA

Hello,

okay...now you got to read about me here. [read more]