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As of today, 13,000 tests for Coronavirus have been done in the US, a country of over 300 million peole. This is an outrage bordering on criminality.
We will have to confront the issues in our health system for future problems. Since American hospital systems make the most money when 95-100% at occupancy, they have no surge protection. Testing is non-existent. One can only assume that novel medications for treating these illnesses will be just as impossible to obtain quickly.
I was an ER physician in the US for 27 years, and I constantly had to remind people that we aren't even on the top 25 list of countries with the best citizen health. But we are #1 in spending on healthcare.
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