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Opinion | The coronavirus pandemic is going to trigger a second healthcare crisis. By Dan Greenleaf, CEO of logisticare

visits. Both are uniquely susceptible to infection. Yet, hospitals can handle only their most pressing, emergency needs.

And this is at a moment when our economy is also taking a turn for the worse and unemployment is rising. But we need to look up for a minute at the larger picture or we will pay a big price down the line. Beyond the, there is also the spectre that four to six months out we will face a second healthcare crisis: The build-up and eventual explosion from all those people now going untreated, whose care can only be delayed so long, some of whom are bound to become emergencies or fatalities of their own.

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logisticare So where are the 40,000 new ventilators that Obama was supposed to add to the national stockpile? Even after a Redo starting in 2014, it still was a disaster! Trump got some of the mess fixed last yr, and 10,000 are due soon. Ventilator ventilatorgate VentilatorShortage

logisticare Love how everyone is predicting future events when we can’t even handle our present event.

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