True, but would expect a higher death rate as the spike will overwhelm the ICUs

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Apr 3, 2020
6:02:17am

BamaCoug All-American

True, but would expect a higher death rate as the spike will overwhelm the ICUs

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Sweden appears to trending in the wrong direction on growth curves

BamaCoug

4/3/20 5:45am

Countries with no mitigation will spike faster, but in theory come down faster;

regularfan

4/3/20 5:50am

True, but would expect a higher death rate as the spike will overwhelm the ICUs

BamaCoug

4/3/20 6:02am

A higher death rate in exchange for lower economic damage?

Brigham

4/3/20 6:24am

That appears to be the trade off. Pain either way. Tough bioethical debate 4sure

BamaCoug

4/3/20 6:35am

My issue is there are thousands of empty ICUs all over rural America just

Fdnman

4/3/20 6:41am

There are only 1320 total ICU beds in rural hospitals. So not "thousands empty"

ryebrye

4/3/20 7:05am

Our local hospital has 4 times number of icu beds. Not sure if every community

kcca

4/3/20 8:45am

that was just the cartoon version of the theory of curve-flattening

The Shazad

4/3/20 6:45am

I am thankful someone is willing to be the control group

compcoug

4/3/20 7:08am

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