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ICU load is now much lower for a given level of cases and barring new variants it will likely decrease further with boaster shots and more people recovered from
by dia80 5y ago
ICU load is now much lower for a given level of cases and barring new variants it will likely decrease further with boaster shots and more people recovered from infection and possible new therapeutics. Moderately increasing ICU capacity would be expensive but not vastly so. See "people in ventilator beds" in the link
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare
- pessimizer 5y ago> barring new variants I didn't know this was an option. How do we go about doing it?
- bidirectional 5y agoThat's not what barring means. The statement is contingent on there not being new variants.
- toyg 5y agoWhich is, let's face it, extremely unlikely - and made even more so by the "laissez-faire" attitude.