States cancel plans for extra hospitals as doomsday predictions fall shortWashington Times, Apr 14, 2020
States are canceling plans for extra hospitals as the coronavirus pandemic, though deadly, falls short of doomsday predictions that the U.S. healthcare system couldn’t handle the onslaught of patients.
New York — the state suffering from the most COVID-19 cases and deaths — postponed plans for make-shift hospital sites, as has Michigan, which recently emerged as one of the next hot spots.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, whose state suffered the first COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. in January, is packing up a field hospital that the feds built at the Century Link Field Event Center. He said the state doesn’t need it even if it has another spike of coronavirus cases.
“At this point, our hospitals should have enough capacity to support a surge in patients,†said Mr. Inslee.
The national projections of demand for hospital beds turned out to be outlandish.
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