Ali Mokdad, a health metrics expert at the University of Washington whose modeling has informed the White House and governors, said the focus on hospital capacity is misguided, particularly if a state allows retail businesses such as hair salons and tattoo parlors to reopen.
States like Illinois, New Jersey and Alabama aren't using excess hospital capacity as a green light to start returning to normal. Governors in those places want to keep restrictions in place long enough to amass enough testing to track the virus if a second wave occurs in the fall. Tom Frieden, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that if he were a governor, he would want to be sure his state had enough testing available to know if cases started to spike again. No state can now say it does.
blakehounshell Hard-hit hospitals have been begging for help for months. The federal government isn't doing what it needs to do and now the states are abdicating their responsibility to keep their populous safe. Don't expect doctors and nurses to die for your stupidity. Do what's right assholes
and when the upcoming surge hits, those governors should be forced to work in the worst hit hospital, a full shift, 7 days a week, every week, til the surge abates...THEN they might understand what they're putting their hospital workers thru
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