Emergency rooms are not okay

It has now reached a crisis point. It is killing people.

We are slowly coming down from a peak in respiratory illness. This past winter was a real test. How will our hospitals—the safety net of our society—fare, given the combination of:

1. Year 4 of a pandemic with a new threat to our repertoire,

2. A recent surge of respiratory viruses,

3. An aging population, and,

4. A massive infrastructure problem decades in the making.

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