Coronavirus will radically alter the U.S.
When Jason Christie, chief of pulmonary medicine at Penn Medicine, got projections on how many coronavirus patients might soon be flocking to his Philadelphia hospital, he said he felt physically ill.
“My front-line providers — we were speaking about it in the situation report that night, and their voices cracked,” Christie said Wednesday. They saw how quickly the surge would overwhelm the system, forcing doctors to make impossible choices — which patients would get ventilators and beds, and which would die.
“They were terrified." Christie said. “And that was the best-case scenario.”
Experts around the country have been churning out model after model — marshaling every tool from math, medicine, science and history — to try to predict the coming chaos unleashed by the new coronavirus and to make preparations.
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But the most frightening thing is that the US will be worse off than most of our industrial nation counterparts and the suffering will be unlike anything we can imagine in our worst dystopian nightmare.
And what many of us know is that Trump and his cronies will not hesitate to use this opportunity to essentially complete the coup and destroy the final blow to our democracy.
