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210635, the US is short 300,000 ICU beds
Posted by rawsouthpaw, Tue Mar-10-20 01:06 AM
International experts in public health including Dr. Galvani, member of the team from Yale that confronted the Ebola outbreak, and the president of the National Nurses United union accompanied Sen. Bernie Sanders today on a panel to give the nation much needed insight into public health policy and the latest developments with the emerging pandemic.
At 1 hour 4 minutes she says their simulations show we are weeks from running out of ICU beds, and we need 300,000 from the current 90,000:
https://youtu.be/h6ccigNCsM4?t=3757
Dr. El Sayed says the "doubling time" of infection cases in Washington state appears to be six days.
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