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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Well that’s too bad.
You’ve got your choices for information, the various news outlets, the government, and yoyos like the people in that video. Who do you trust implicitly? Hopefully no one. Who do you completely dismiss? Hopefully no one.
The trick is to be smart and critical and glean information from many sources.
Even the clowns in that video had some good information- the hospitals as shown in the news aren’t crowded 24/7. Good to know. Of course, like the news media, they then took it too far and implied that the hospitals are never busy.
It’s a jungle out there.
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Hospitals have cancelled elective procedures and doctors' offices are instructing patients to consult by phone for non-serious conditions. This is partly to free up capacity and partly to reduce transmission. That's why you'll see some parts of some hospitals looking quiet, and why medical workers in some specialties are actually being laid off/hours cut (dermatologist, dentist, etc).
When this started, health officials looked at national average 2.6 hospital beds/1000 persons and typically 65% occupied, and realized they would need every one of those beds to be empty and ready. (In Oregon, 1.6/1000 - among lowest in nation.)