Early on in the pandemic lockdowns, I got a call from a friend in Texas. He reported that local hospitals were furloughing nurses, and the parking lot was completely empty. I didn’t believe it.
This was a pandemic. How could this be true? News was filled with reports of crowding within several hospitals in New York – even if a 1,000-bed Navy hospital was mostly used – and one had the impression that this was probably happening all over the country. It wasn’t. The problem was local and short term, but most of the country never faced a hospital capacity problem.
After hanging up the phone with my friend, I looked for news stories. Sure enough, he was right.
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