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I do medical equipment repair and service.I work in a mid size hospital in a large city there are maybe 20 available beds. My wife works for a large hospital in the same city. Not certain of beds available there. This virus multiplies faster than the flu. We can not stop it yet. All elective surgeries should be postponed to open more beds. It is not just beds it is beds with med gas provisions, equipment such as IV pumps, ventilators, etc, and the staff who can care for the patients
The ONLY hospital serving an entire parish (county for the other 49 states) that has a population of about 47,000 people, has 30 total beds, but 1/3rd or 10 of them are ICU. The last time I worked there, about 5 years ago, they only had 7 ventilators.
I've also worked at one of roughly 5 nationwide DHHS warehouses, which has racks of equipment, and the building I worked in was massive, possibly 3 football fields. What I always thought was an overabundance of emergency medical equipment pales in the face of this epidemic, and for all intents and purposes, it's a new strain of flu.
Zombie Apocalypse breakout movies don't seem so far fetched now...