Uncertainty in planning for the pandemic has left the globe dotted with dozens of barely used or unused temporary field hospitals, costing potentially billions of dollars. Some public officials say it's a good problem to have.
FILE - In this March 30, 2020, file photo, the USNS Comfort hospital ship passes lower Manhattan on its way to docking in New York. Uncertainty in planning for the pandemic has left the globe dotted with dozens of barely used or unused temporary field hospitals. The Navy hospital ship that offered help in Manhattan is soon to depart.
“It will count as a huge success for the whole country if we never have to use them,” said Simon Stevens, the chief executive of the National Health Service in England, where sparsely used field hospitals have been criticized as costly, unnecessary “white elephants.” As the crisis eases and permanent hospitals are able to better manage the load, some of Spain’s field hospitals are scaling back or shutting down. The Madrid facility halved its capacity and could close in two weeks if infection rates hold.
“We had to ... prepare a dam in case the epidemic overcame the embankment,” Lombardy Governor Attilio Fontana told Italian all-news station Radio 24. At the same time, hospitals were discharging patients to free up beds and adding new ones, and the public was starting to embrace social-distancing measures to stem the spread of infection.
The disparity between Cuomo’s worst-case-scenario planning and what actually happened caught the attention of one critic, President Donald Trump.
日本 最新ニュース, 日本 見出し
Similar News:他のニュース ソースから収集した、これに似たニュース記事を読むこともできます。
AP PHOTOS: Surfers catch waves again in New Zealand, Bondi
続きを読む »
New York City Mayor Criticized for How He Denounced Large Jewish Funeral Held During CoronavirusBill de Blasio warned “the Jewish community, and all communities” that any violation of social distancing guidelines would not be tolerated
続きを読む »
New York edges toward lifting some coronavirus restrictions in some areas in MayThe process of lifting stay-at-home policies remains a patchwork of faster-moving states and slower ones, but it has picked up momentum.
続きを読む »