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Field Hospitals are designed for Trauma patients. They were never designed to handle infectious disease case loads.

The plan was to help take on non-covid case load from primary hospitals in the region that they were deployed to.

Surprised to see this comment come so late. It's true. The regular hospitals were hotbeds for covid infections, so it made sense to keep the non-covid patients as separate as possible from the covid ones. Hence, the field hospitals. It would be terrible to come into the hospital with a broken bone and come out of it with the virus. It makes sense to avoid transporting infected patients whenever possible because it could lead to a new outbreak in a different location.

The kicker is that in order to be transferred to the non-covid hospitals, you still had to be TESTED for covid and come up negative.

THAT'S why these hospitals were all empty in the first place. It all comes back to what a shitshow testing is in this country.

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