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Originally Posted by CaptainHowdy
Medicine has evolved . . . haven't you heard, Paul ? ?
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This will not help as hospitals around the world are running at nearly 100% capacity right now. If even 1% of the world population needs hospitalization at the same time, that's an additional 75,000,000 hospital beds that would be needed.
20% of cases are considered serious, and many of those need advanced intervention and respirators. Without it, the death rate skyrockets.
So, unless modern medicine has "evolved" to include star trek replicators, I wouldn't count on having any access to anything modern in the medical field. The system is already overloaded, and in countries with outbreaks, it's completely broken down (see China's hastily constructed emergency hospitals and their collapsing infrastructure if you want more proof of that).