The US has 980K hospital beds and 2.7 million RNs

[Recursion]

Forget the money. The money isn't the problem. We'll find the money.

That is the limitation of our response: 980K hospital beds, and 2.7 million RNs. Those two numbers determine how we can respond to COVID-19.

The questions we need to be talking about are "where do you want those RNs to be?" and "who do you want in those hospital beds?"

If China and Italy are clues, we'll have to make those decisions.

[mucifer]

1. I am just wondering what my job as a hospice nurse in a big city is going to

be like if things change drastically.

[Squinch]

2. Before ALL of that, the number we test determines how we can respond. And we aren't testing.

So there will be no logical answers to your questions.

We will not make any rational decisions about rationing care.

We won't be able to protect those RNs, so forget your 2.7 million number. How long till half of them are sick?

None of this will lend itself to rationality.

[dewsgirl]

3. I saw where Italy has began graduating nurses and doctors early

and also pulling people out of retirement.