You see, developed societies such as the United States have a certain number of doctors and nurses staffing a certain number of hospitals and clinics. You won’t see many empty hospitals full of doctors and nurses and medical supplies, just waiting for some new virus to emerge. “In an effort to cope” with covid-19, “Italy is graduating nurses early and calling medical workers out of retirement,” reporter Loveday Morris wrote in The Post. It only needs to pose additional burdens on health-care resources beyond the capacity of those resources. And if the president doesn’t like today’s news, he is really going to hate those headlines.

Source: Washington Post March 10, 2020 18:22 UTC