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Old 1 April 2020, 10:04 AM   #4629
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Originally Posted by Boothroyd View Post

We don’t need them in the workforce during this pandemic. Stay at home as long as you want. When things flatten out then come back to work. This isn’t a personal attack. It’s reality.
An overburdened surge on the healthcare system without the resources we currently lack will kill a lot medical providers.

Second, a fair number of doctors in the US are boomers and older. I posted this stat a week or so ago in this thread. Again, a surge on the healthcare system without the resources to protect providers may result a in large loss of doctors.

It is easy to say let them die. But I have not heard any front line medical providers who are in the trenches risking their life daily say let the chips fall where they may.
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