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I do medical sales, what is known as capital equipment in the business. X-ray units used mostly in surgery, cover most of the large hospitals in Atlanta GA. Mostly they are ghost towns, patients delaying coming in to the ER for a stroke or heart attack only weeks later and patients not allowed any visitors (including family). We are heading for a massive public health issue with increases in levels of disease or people with chronic illness like diabetes not getting care and then having a limb amputated. The other side of this equation is a 400 plus bed hospital needs patients getting non COVID related care/surgery to pay the bills so they can stay open. I don’t know how many people mistakenly think hospitals are loaded with cash, they are not. What do you think it takes just to pay the light bill in a building that size let alone pay staff? I highly suspect we will all see hospitals in our respective towns shut the doors and lights off permanently in the not distant future.
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