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Aussie105

(5,405 posts)
10. Well, seeing China can knock up two hospitals in Wuhan
Sat Feb 29, 2020, 06:11 AM
Feb 2020

in a couple of weeks, and fully staff and equip it, to be ready for an influx of patients, I'm sure the USA, being the richest and strongest country in the world, could outdo that easily.

Say, 200 hospitals in one week? Fully staffed, of course. For a total of say 800,000 beds. 4,000 beds in each hospital.
Easily do-able.
Being the richest, smartest country in the world and all that. With a leader with a bigly brain, a stable genius, shouldn't be a problem.

Not at all.

/sarcasm (as if I needed to add that!)

But seriously, Australia has the same problem coming up. Hospitals here can't cope with the normal seasonal flu peaks as it is, so what chance have we got in a pandemic?

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