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The vast majority of COVID patients aren't just "COVID patients". They're people with comorbidities that put them in a more serious position than a regular (otherwise healthy) individual with a respiratory illness. To "specialize" in COVID you likely need to have training on diabetes, neuro, renal, cardiac and other systems. To a certain point, you just need a fully trained nurse because you can't specialize too deeply on "COVID" without needing training on the comorbidties that come along with an ICU patient.

I guess I'm bias because my spouse is an ICU RN, but the ignorance of HN comments boggles my mind. Do all the hackers try to solve domain problems they have absolutely 0 experience in? I don't pretend to have solutions for the healthcare system because I don't work in the healthcare domain. I can assure you, the red tape that exists is there for very good reasons, because we've tried "unregulated" systems and they were a disaster. We've learned from our mistakes, and that means rigor that can't be replaced by some keyboard jockey writing webdev or embedded systems for unrelated fields.