Depends on the way you look at this, and what your politics are.
Underemployed hospitals means a lot of procedures are not happening right now. Lots of chemo and similar things. Those will be facing long waiting lists once the state opens back up. If you even get those patients to come back in the next months. I think the risks are somewhat distorted. If you are skipping chemo because you are scared of Covid19, you may be missing something. And yes, chemo was deemed not essential as far as I can tell. I think they call those excess deaths, and it's very hard to say how those will shape up.
From a resident perspective, I see a flat curve with plenty of capacity, even of ventilators, and still a closed up state. But that's getting us into politics. The governor is following a timeline of opening up to normal maybe within 4-6 month. As long as sections are closed up, you need to sustain comfortable unemployment benefits to keep people even halfway in line to play along. Soon the money for that will run dry. It seems like she can extend stay-at-home orders without democratic agreement, but once the money runs dry, she cannot make a budget by herself. So things will get ugly eventually.
Underemployed hospitals means a lot of procedures are not happening right now. Lots of chemo and similar things. Those will be facing long waiting lists once the state opens back up. If you even get those patients to come back in the next months. I think the risks are somewhat distorted. If you are skipping chemo because you are scared of Covid19, you may be missing something. And yes, chemo was deemed not essential as far as I can tell. I think they call those excess deaths, and it's very hard to say how those will shape up.
From a resident perspective, I see a flat curve with plenty of capacity, even of ventilators, and still a closed up state. But that's getting us into politics. The governor is following a timeline of opening up to normal maybe within 4-6 month. As long as sections are closed up, you need to sustain comfortable unemployment benefits to keep people even halfway in line to play along. Soon the money for that will run dry. It seems like she can extend stay-at-home orders without democratic agreement, but once the money runs dry, she cannot make a budget by herself. So things will get ugly eventually.