"If you think of our health care system as a subway car and it's rush hour and everybody wants to get on the car once, they start piling up at the door," says Drew Harris, a population health researcher at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. "They pile up on the platform. There's just not enough room in the car to take care of everybody, to accommodate everybody. That's the system that is overwhelmed. It just can't handle it, and people wind up not getting services that they need."
- Flattening A Pandemic's Curve: Why Staying Home Now Can Save Lives, NPR.org, March 13. 2020.
2. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said he doesn’t believe New York’s health care system will be able to meet the demand required by coronavirus patients, NPR reports.
Said Cuomo: “I don’t believe we’ll be able to flatten the curve enough to meet the capacity of the health care system.”
He repeatedly said the federal government will need to do more and said his administration is working with the National Guard and health officials to identify facilities that could be retrofitted to serve as hospitals, like dorms and old nursing homes.
- Cuomo Doesn’t Think New York Can ‘Flatten the Curve’, PoliticalWire.com, March 16, 2020.
3. AS NEW GUIDELINES AND restrictions aimed at combating the novel coronavirus emerge around the country, a population health analyst who's called attention to the importance of "flattening the curve" says it's crucial that everyone does their part.
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