[quote=ltsdd][quote=flu]There’s 1.4 million people in SD County. a 2% infection rate would mean 28k people infected. Of that, 70% of people infected would need a ventilator or go to the ICU, using a small sample space obtained from patients in China, or roughly 19.6k people in SD. In San Diego County, how many hospital beds do we have total and how many ventilators are available at hospitals? Probably half.

Screw toilet paper. I just ordered a oxygen ventilator, taking a lesson from the hospitals in Italy, before people figure this out. I needed to use my FSA health account anyway.[/quote]

Why not reserve the hospital beds for the elderly? Younger folks, just give them a month’s worth of flu & hiv drugs to take home?[/quote]

This thing isn’t just hitting the elderly. It depends as well. You could have complications depending on your own body or immune system, etc. Hopefully, medical professionals won’t be needing to make decisions on whether they should give the ventilator to your 80+year old grandma that can’t breath versus some 24year old person that for some reason also can’t breath, because they don’t have enough ventilators. I believe Italy hospitals are doing just that right now. I’m fearful if it came to that, those elderly won’t get a ventilator.

BYOV: bring your own ventilator. Even if you were allocated one, perhaps you end up saving someone else’s life that might not have gotten one.