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They ought to move it to the Fairgrounds to save money. This financial model is going to run out of money very quickly.
While I understand the need for precautions I also understand the financial impact this will have. I believe that we all need to be aware and wash our hands frequently but I think as a nation we have gone overboard.
I hope the people who believe this is overkill will generously forego a hospital bed should they become that ill such that there’s room for others. If we ballpark the following figures for Indiana (just to keep the numbers easy): 6M people, 200 hospitals, and 400 beds/hospital, that’s 80,000 beds (max) for 6M people or room (no pun intended) for 1.3% of the population…and that’s if you were to kick out or bar anyone out who needs a hospital bed for non-COVID-19 purposes, say for surgery. The death rate for COVID-19 is in excess of 3% and so far, we don’t know of anyone with a natural immunity and we don’t know whether you only get it once and are immune, or if it’s going to mutate – remember, this is a virus, and our knowledge and ability to tinker with a virus is not what you’d expect it to be — look at influenza – multiple strains – the flu strain you had in January doesn’t preclude you from getting a different strain next week. And with flu shots, they don’t even cover every strain; instead, they practically toss a few darts and hope they’ve picked the right strains, even for a quad shot. Care to factor age into the equation? Let’s guess 15% of the Indiana population is aged 65+, so far seen to be the most vulnerable to COVID-19 (I think the magic age they’re tossing about is 60+). That’s 900,000 people considered to be the most vulnerable. Toss in the timetable of two weeks to cycle through a bout of COVID-19…
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All my numbers are obviously subject to scrutiny, but I’ve been as generous as I can realistically be and it doesn’t look good…
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And before I wrote this, Tom Hanks & his wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for COVID-19 in Australia and the NBA has suspended the season indefinitely.
A friend chided me for providing some really rough numbers so I thought I’d add one more factoid to slim down the number of hospital beds. In the wee hours today, MSNBC was comparing Italy & USA resource numbers. One number was the hospital bed count. Italy has 34 beds for every 10,000 people and the US has 29. 6,000,000 Hoosiers would mean Indiana has roughly 17,400 hospital beds.