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I'd definitely call it widespread. In many places across the world, hospitals faced bed and ICU shortages and had to go to heroic efforts to prevent them. But most of them were successful, remediating their shortages before anyone had to be denied care.


Wrong. They were more successful if they had proper supplies of masks, citizens cooperative with lockdowns, enough testing capacity, and so on. Otherwise, no, they were having triage when they normally would be able to treat everyone.


A shortage means a denial of care took place.


Sure, that's a reasonable definition, in which case it's untrue that more than a handful of places around the world have had a shortage.




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