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ElbertoHokie

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One thing I think you're missing is that the flu isn't taking a break


during all of this. It's still killing people nad sending people to the hospital as well. So the issue with capacity is that they have to contend with your normal infectious disease load plus this huge additional load that I'm sure planners do not account for when building capacity.

(In response to this post by RoswellGAHokie)

Posted: 03/26/2020 at 3:14PM


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