America's hospitals will be overrun with coronavirus in just EIGHT DAYS: Obama's Medicare boss

[MelissaB]

America's hospitals will be overrun with coronavirus in just EIGHT DAYS: Obama's Medicare boss issues dire warning as doctors say as many as 500,000 are already infected and 10 MILLION will need care

*There are only 790,000 hospital beds 100,000 ICU beds total in all of the hospitals across the country

*Dr. Makary urged people to be more vigilant said 'we're about to experience the worst epidemic since polio'

*Johns Hopkins predicts 9.6million people will need to be hospitalized and 3million will need ICU care

*Doctors and nurses fear the hospital system, which is already overrun by the flu season, may buckle

*In Italy, doctors are having to choose between critically ill people to treat because resources are short

America's hospitals will be overrun with coronavirus patients in just eight days and face months of strain, according to Obama's former Medicare boss.

Andy Slavitt, former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, issued the dire warning on Twitter on Saturday along with a string of advice for the public, governments and health workers.

'Last night I was on with state & local officials around the US well into the night.

'By March 23 many of our largest cities & hospitals are on course to be overrun with cases,' he wrote.

Slavitt then listed highlights from the memo he had prepared which included telling people to self-isolate now, closing bars and restaurants, frantically sourcing medical supplies 'even from the black market' if necessary and gearing up for the 'tsunami' of patients that will soon arrive at hospitals.

'The stakes are higher than any most of us have ever experienced: wars, 9/11, whatever,' he later added.

More: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8112063/America-braces-coronvirus-collapse-100-00-ICU-beds-10-MILLION-hospitalized.html

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Edited to say: This info comes from Andy Slavitt who is the former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama.
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[evertonfc]

1. These predictions are creditable but if

for some reason, this dosent unfold, there will be a credibility issue with these folks for decades to come. My conversations with people in the medical field in Nashville come down somewhere in middle. Let's just hope for best.

[stillcool]

4. Credibility Issue?

there is a serious credibility issue right now! My God, the Con and his crew have Zero credibility on anything. He can't help but lie every time he opens his mouth. I wouldn't worry about 'these folks'. They're the only ones that will save our asses.

[PubliusEnigma]

2. We have 3% of the ICU beds we will need.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Notice first,this story comes from the UK.

Second,where in hell is our Media on this? Talk about a bunch out to lunch. And yes,if John Hopkins says next weekend,it will be next weekend. Period!

[Native]

5. Kick - everyone needs to read this!

[Native]

6. Melissa - will you please post this in LBN?

[MelissaB]

7. Feel free to post there or anywhere else.

[Midnight Writer]

8. I went to the ER last December, and found out the hospital was full. No rooms.

They set me up in the hallway with a movable screen for my privacy.

A nurse told me there was a bad flu bug. Every bed was full.

This was before Covid-19. I don't know what they will do when this hits our area.