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My overall point was about not getting too smug about potential deaths in the US
Definitely wasn't getting smug about US deaths, I have family out there. I'm worried a lack of paid sick leave and health insurance will cause serious issues that go beyond the medical repercussions of a pandemic. People will be bankrupted or left with crippling medical bills.
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It was in response to Crispin_Glover's post I quoted.
Not much consolation, but you'd hope that they don't need to be hospitalised with the majority of the costs will be diagnostic - which can add up fast, but should be in the k's not tens of k's. Sick leave is obviously an issue as is a multiweek hospital stay.
hugo7
IME yes. Particularly lighting speed of diagnostics - which is hard to fathom when coming from the UK system.
No experience of ER vs A&E.
The JH study looks robust, but without a decent comparison for the UK it isn't that helpful. For eg this includes adverse drug reactions:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/200-million-medication-errors-occur-nhs-every-year-1.765781
http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Health-systems/patient-safety/data-and-statistics
t-v's point on beds is also important. Although figs seem hard to obtain it looks like it's about 6.6 vs 28 per 100K. Which is a lot. Like everything in the US there is of course huge regional variation.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-012-2627-8
My overall point was about not getting too smug about potential deaths in the US. Which I stand by.