When the lockdowns began last month, we were told that if we didn't stay home our hospitals would be overwhelmed with coronavirus patients, intensive care wards would be overrun, there wouldn't be enough ventilators, and some people would probably die in their homes for lack of care.
Even in New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last month he would need 30,000 ventilators, hospitals never came close to needing that many.
On Tuesday, President Trump said the USNS Comfort, the Navy hospital ship that had been deployed to New York to provide emergency care for coronavirus patients, will be leaving New York.
In Illinois, where hospitals across the state scrambled to stock up on ventilators last month, fewer than half of them have been put to use-and as of Sunday, only 757 of 1,345 ventilators were being used by COVID-19 patients.
Hospitals and health care systems nationwide have had to furlough or lay off thousands of employees.
If hospitals can't perform these procedures because governors have banned them, then they can't pay their bills, or their employees.
Public officials responsible for the lockdowns will no doubt claim that without these draconian measures, our hospitals surely would have been overwhelmed.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/23/instead-of-flattening-the-curve-we-flattened-hospitals-doctors-and-the-u-s-health-care-system/
Even in New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last month he would need 30,000 ventilators, hospitals never came close to needing that many.
On Tuesday, President Trump said the USNS Comfort, the Navy hospital ship that had been deployed to New York to provide emergency care for coronavirus patients, will be leaving New York.
In Illinois, where hospitals across the state scrambled to stock up on ventilators last month, fewer than half of them have been put to use-and as of Sunday, only 757 of 1,345 ventilators were being used by COVID-19 patients.
Hospitals and health care systems nationwide have had to furlough or lay off thousands of employees.
If hospitals can't perform these procedures because governors have banned them, then they can't pay their bills, or their employees.
Public officials responsible for the lockdowns will no doubt claim that without these draconian measures, our hospitals surely would have been overwhelmed.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/23/instead-of-flattening-the-curve-we-flattened-hospitals-doctors-and-the-u-s-health-care-system/
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