Kathy Hochul has no idea how exponential growth works. Clearing hospital capacity now and stopping elective surgery now is exactly the opposite of any reasonable procedure. Even in the worst case scenarios, Omicron won’t have much impact on case numbers for several weeks. After that, however long we have, we will need all the capacity we can get. The time to get other stuff out of the way is now.
I think probably the most important “other stuff” is health care workers taking vacations (so that they don’t quit / kill themselves / etc. in the next few months), and some sort of coordinated reduction in workload to enable that seems like a good idea.
I think probably the most important “other stuff” is health care workers taking vacations (so that they don’t quit / kill themselves / etc. in the next few months), and some sort of coordinated reduction in workload to enable that seems like a good idea.
Fully agree with this—though I’m not optimistic that hospitals will allow much of it.