ORIGINAL: Orm
If distance is great, then you can use ambulance flights. Or helocopeters. Or so I have been informed. Rumour has it that such transports have been made in Sweden. And if it can be made in Sweden, then I am sure that it can made with greater effect in Texas.ORIGINAL: warspite1
warspite1ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
There is a map as well:
Italy is about 2.2 times smaller than Texas.
Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 44.44% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people (37.0 million more people live in Italy). We have positioned the outline of Texas near the middle of Italy.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country ... /texas-usa
Italy is between the size of Arizona and new Mexico.
Not sure what you are showing here. The biggest outbreak in Texas is in Harris county. How far is it from there to another large Texan city that has not been as badly affected or another state where the medical services are under less pressure?
If you are saying distance is the reason patients can't be transferred then fine. I personally don't believe that, but then I don't know. My guess, is that, as with Italy and Spain, there might be other reasons and while there is capacity to move some, if hospitals get swamped (as happened in Lombardy) then it becomes a whole lot more difficult.
And it costs ...
The median charge of an air ambulance trip was $39,000 in 2016, about 60% more than the $24,000 charged just four years earlier, researchers found.
That amount is "more than half of the household income for the average American family in 2016," said lead researcher Ge Bai. She is an associate professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
It's also much more than the median $10,000 it typically costs the company to conduct a helicopter air ambulance flight, said the Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS).
These are of course normal costs within a city. Not to another state. I of course think profit (up to nearly 4x operating costs) should be suspended during these circumstances to save more lives, but I'd doubt that is happening. If it is that company should be rewarded.
https://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/ ... st-40000#1
Again, the federal government could probably intervene with appropriate equipment, ideally military medical units with large carrying capacity in choppers or planes.
; Julia Child
