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mitch96

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27. " 'Get ready':"

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Sat Mar 7, 2020, 10:47 PM

Mar 2020

Can you imagine how this is gonna run thru the migrant camps???? This is gonna get messy real quick..
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'Get ready': Italian doctors warn Europe [View all] Ghost Dog Mar 2020 OP

+++ Leghorn21 Mar 2020 #1

Gee... Newest Reality Mar 2020 #2

Well, a wartime economy requires some command and control... Ghost Dog Mar 2020 #3

...and command and control is contingent on competence. n/t slumcamper Mar 2020 #11

Ah, Newest Reality Mar 2020 #15

Those stockpiles are for the 1% YOHABLO Mar 2020 #21

Oh, Newest Reality Mar 2020 #23

Ventec, an innovative US outfit, makes portable ventilators: Ghost Dog Mar 2020 #42

We don't build many things here anymore. OMGWTF Mar 2020 #14

Try the number 750,000 ventilators would be needed in pandemic based on numbers Pachamama Mar 2020 #28

It's not just the old...... getagrip_already Mar 2020 #4

This is fucking scary.... BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #8

Yes. ooky Mar 2020 #31

That was not correct reporting Meowmee Mar 2020 #34

Amazing that a dog has access to the test. cwydro Mar 2020 #39

Probably they were scared pets can get the virus too and transmit it Meowmee Mar 2020 #53

Both articles say the same thing. ooky Mar 2020 #40

Whoever posted this suggested a dog had tested positive and had the virus Meowmee Mar 2020 #48

Nothing was "suggested". The linked article states the dog ooky Mar 2020 #50

There was a post I think our dogs etc will be getting it next, you then stated a dog tested positive Meowmee Mar 2020 #54

Which was correct, since the dog tested positively, and linked it. ooky Mar 2020 #56

+1,000+++++ CountAllVotes Mar 2020 #52

And here we have a clueless numbnut at the helm C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #5

This is really bad news. The strain on the system bronxiteforever Mar 2020 #6

I saw a horrifying policy they are considering earlier, dewsgirl Mar 2020 #7

What possible policy/rumor are you referring to? liberalla Mar 2020 #44

It involved age limits and the elderly in the ICU in Italy. dewsgirl Mar 2020 #45

As in choosing who might receive care and who might not... is my guess liberalla Mar 2020 #46

I have followed this virus through all sorts of scary twists dewsgirl Mar 2020 #47

They had to do that during Hurricane Katrina Horse with no Name Mar 2020 #49

I didn't know that, at the time we donated, but I was young dewsgirl Mar 2020 #51

I don't think people understand that it devastates providers Horse with no Name Mar 2020 #55

*GD, I WANT TO X- POST THIS IN 'HEALTH' IF OK appalachiablue Mar 2020 #9

Sure. That would be useful, thanks. Nt Ghost Dog Mar 2020 #12

Got it, TY! appalachiablue Mar 2020 #13

Question: In a competitive healthcare market (let's say a small city with 2-3 competing hospitals)-- slumcamper Mar 2020 #10

It might be better for the profitability of a hospital to refuse to treat COVID-19 patients. tclambert Mar 2020 #19

There are laws that require hospitals to stabilize patients regardless of ability to pay. Hoyt Mar 2020 #29

I believe the rule is that if they accept Medicare payments, they must accept all comers. But they PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2020 #32

If a patient is in respiratory distress, it's difficult to discharge them home. And, if Hoyt Mar 2020 #33

Oh, you'd be surprised. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2020 #35

They'll discharge, If they are willing to pay the EMTALA penalties and any civil awards. Hoyt Mar 2020 #36

It's a very relevant question bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #22

very frightening bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #16

the virus is much worse than initially thought AlexSFCA Mar 2020 #17

But dear leader has a "gut feeling" that the fatality rate is really very low. tclambert Mar 2020 #20

But, my brother is a Dr. DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #25

worse yet - Pence, who engineered hiv epidemic in rural indiana AlexSFCA Mar 2020 #26

Of course they did. They always under report bad news and SiliconValley_Dem Mar 2020 #38

A friend in Paris heard from a friend of his who was there, but forbidden from sending reports DFW Mar 2020 #43

Jesus. PatrickforO Mar 2020 #18

Don't worry! Grokenstein Mar 2020 #24

" 'Get ready':" mitch96 Mar 2020 #27

The homeless, too. Newest Reality Mar 2020 #30

California is going to be pandemic central when this finally blows up ansible Mar 2020 #41

These fuckers in America first go it alone Trump WH SiliconValley_Dem Mar 2020 #37