Avoiding the threshold of hospital capacity. We can’t all get sick at once.
Avoiding the threshold of hospital capacity is one way by which “flattening the curve” can save lives 1,4. By threshold of capacity, I am referring the maximal number of people the healthcare system can accommodate. Once we reach that limit, mortality rises, not because we couldn’t have saved those lives. It rises because we don’t have the resources to save them [graph 6].
Basically, we can’t all get sick at the same time. That’s because there aren’t enough ICU beds or ventilators.
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