The market seems to be seeing through the coming months of viral pain, just as it looks through any natural disaster which has high human costs but lower long term economic costs. So the following questions are more out of curiosity than investment impact. Many doctors have posted here, so maybe someone knows more about whats happening.
1. NM hit 102% ICU capacity. What does this mean? Are staff working 1.02 shifts? Could they work 2 shifts? 100% doesn't seem to be a real hard limit. https://news.yahoo.com/intensive-care-units-hospitals-coronavirus-pandemic-health-human-services-report-202137966.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMIvCKGM_DZzdARm4PBZQPw9v5c7skbhTqwAHGTo0B3B0dN_VoKnBoa82VuexpuEVdS_KAgn6jc7SIiDRt0WLkiEb9mNqlc0TiO9Em4bhpMNUYLq0jxqYAsbQXlfPtzuzESS8d54JBy17r2WUKoQOPF7Gc5Weg00nILQDJPoFbzw
2. Assuming there is a real limit somewhere, and demand and supply of ICU beds needs to be cleared, what approach do US hospitals take? Who gets the limited supply of ICU beds
a) The one who has the money , aka free market solution?
b) The one who knows the governor, aka corruption, nepotism...
c) Some triage, aka the one most likely to survive and live many years? Who makes this judgement and sentences people to death?
3. IF the capacity/supply constraint is not physical beds but staff, can't that be imported from areas in the world where the pandemic is more controlled? e.g. Aus, NZ, S Korea, China. Staff can be flown in from there. You'd need to ask nicely and give the right incentives, but not sure if there are any other constraints. Hospitals can't take the medical malpractice legal risk perhaps? Still seems better to me than letting people die in the corridors.