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EarthFirst

(2,899 posts) Sun Nov 22, 2020, 01:07 PM Nov 2020

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Hospitals Know What's Coming

Perhaps no hospital in the United States was better prepared for a pandemic than the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/11/americas-best-prepared-hospital-nearly-overwhelmed/617156/?_gl=1*33cnup*_ga*YW1wLXlyVWdCSHV4cTRHTWs1VHBUOTBMQ09LMURFbUdWM3VDUzR1VThGNl8xRnZTbW1MX1FHLWdpREtXMTYtNUlSMXg.

“We are on an absolutely catastrophic path.”

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Hospitals Know What's Coming (Original Post) EarthFirst Nov 2020 OP

I graduated from cloth mask to a full face respirator device yesterday. roamer65 Nov 2020 #1

that's sobering... stillcool Nov 2020 #2

In the Nebraska county where i grew up, within 200 miles of UNMC Ms. Toad Nov 2020 #3

roamer65

(36,744 posts)

1. I graduated from cloth mask to a full face respirator device yesterday.

Reply to EarthFirst (Original post)

Sun Nov 22, 2020, 01:09 PM

Nov 2020

I don’t want to be one of the thousands in overflow beds.

With nearly 200k infections a day it’s time for it.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)

2. that's sobering...

Reply to EarthFirst (Original post)

Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:10 PM

Nov 2020

somehow, with all we now know, it's still startling to read about the exhaustion and dread of what's coming. What a nightmare.

Ms. Toad

(33,999 posts)

3. In the Nebraska county where i grew up, within 200 miles of UNMC

Reply to EarthFirst (Original post)

Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:37 PM

Nov 2020

The likelihood that a 10 person gathering includes at least one coronavirus positive person is 80-100%.

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