Monday, March 30, 2020

A View From Inside a NY Emergency Room


This footage is tragic and frustrating. The doctors and nurses are strained to the limit. They don't have enough protective equipment for themselves, or life saving equipment for their patients.

The main goal of Social Distancing and Shelter in Place is to "flatten the curve," which is to say, slow down the rate of infection before the medical system becomes overwhelmed, like it is in New York City, Italy, Madrid, and now in Detroit (where they are already rationing healthcare to those with the best chances of survival), New Orleans and many other places.

Governor Cuomo was late to enact social distancing policies in New York.

California, and especially the SF Bay Area, acted much sooner. Hopefully, soon enough. We should know in the next week or so if the efforts here have succeeded in slowing down the infection rate.

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