The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) expects COVID-19 will “almost certainly
overwhelm the health system,” as a recent model suggests serious cases will exceed current capacity for ICU beds and ventilators.
https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/covid-19-...
"So to move from where we are, which is sort of a mitigation strategy, trying to limit the number of people who are infected so it doesn't overwhelm the health system, to a containment strategy, where we're trying to identify people who have exposures, then we're not there. We're simply not there yet in terms of testing volume."
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-upda...
Late Wednesday, vice-president elect William Lai, who was a physician before entering politics, appealed on his Facebook page for calm, pointing out that lockdowns were for when there was a massive rise in cases that may
overwhelm the health system.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13321225
Almost 17 million adults, or 6.5 percent of the U.S. adult population, live in communities where covid-19 patients could
overwhelm hospital beds, needing more than all available.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/inves...
※米ワシントン・ポストのインタラクティヴなページより。
Are
your hospitals at risk of
being overwhelmed by covid-19 patients?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/inves...
※同上。ユーザーが自分の郵便番号を入れて検索する欄より。受動態
The takeaway, the researchers said, is that across the nation, “micro-geographies” of individual Zip codes or small towns have the potential to generate surges of covid-19 patients that could
overwhelm even the most-prepared
hospitals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/inves...
※同上。記事の地の文より。
These events create patient surges that
overwhelm hospital resources, space, and staff.
https://www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com/jhospmed...
※COVID-19とは関係のない、2008年の論文のアブストラクトより。
(Boris Johnson said, ")I know there will be many people looking now at our current success and beginning to wonder whether now is the time to go easy on those social distancing measures.(") The word success here will be controversial, even if he is using it narrowly in relation to moving through the peak and having not
overwhelmed the NHS.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/27/b...
※英ジョンソン首相が2020年4月27日に職務復帰した際のスピーチに関する論評。the NHS = the National Health Service.