[amalter]

We don't have enough doctors and nurses to staff the ICU beds bolted to the floors of the hospital.

Those field hospitals are surge capacity; and work with hurricanes and earthquakes where a single part of the country is affected. You can bring in volunteers and reservists from other areas to create capacity.

When the emergency is everywhere, and on-going, all of your surge capacity is gone.

[mrhands69]

The emergency has been everywhere and ongoing for almost 2 years now. At what point do they make an effort and the government says "Hey, let's permanently bolster our hospital systems. We'll hire X amount of 'surge' staff, create X amount of 'surge' beds".

But we don't do that. Instead we act surprised every time there's a surge, the media feeds off it and everyone starts infighting. I'm not convinced hospital capacity is really the problem people say it is.

[sjg007]

You need to train more doctors first. That’s the issue.