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chillacy on March 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Taiwan's new 'electronic fence' for quarantines le...

By capacity I mean during flu season we don't run out of hospital beds when people with serious flu complications need them.

By that definition then "not having capacity" means that people who go to the ER have to get turned away based on medical triaging.

dekhn on March 24, 2020 [–]

Hospitals often have to set up tents in parking lots to deal with flu cases when the influx is much higher than average. We don't provision for peak flu; we provision for something less than the flu average.

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