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Originally Posted by filthyvermin
you guys are wrong when you say america will be unwilling to shut down. if enough people are dropping dead then americans will stay home.
"More spread was inevitable once states started to relax their lockdowns, and they are going to continue until a vaccine exists. But they also need to be put in context. New York City had about 12 times more Covid-19 patients per capita in intensive-care units at the peak of its hospital surge in April than California does today, six times more than Miami-Dade, five times more than Arizona, and four times more than Harris County.
New York City and other hard-hit parts of the Northeast experienced bigger outbreaks in the spring, which were slow to recede even with strict lockdowns as the virus spread through nursing homes and public housing. Two months after locking down, New York City still had many more Covid patients in intensive care than most new hot spots do today.
Elderly patients typically require more acute care and spend more time in the hospital, and the good news is that the hospitalized cases now are younger and on average less severe. The chief operating officer of Tenet Healthcare, which runs hospitals in Sun Belt states, told investors last week that “the length of stay on [recent] cases is lower, the resource consumption is lower.”
wsj.com