[trhway]

>can't be increased on short notice.

i think the 3-6 months that we had would have been enough to train any MD to care for a covid patient, at least for majority of cases and under supervision of existing high specialist. My understanding is that non-covid personnel had their workload significantly decreased, so they could have been trained for covid for the second wave.

[flunhat]

You might be right -- at this point, with everything that's gone wrong at the govt level, I'm pretty willing to accept rank incompetence as an explanation.