u/Weak-Representative8

Wanted to share a deep dive article about Andes too

I was reading this article and thought to myself, COVID exposed weaknesses in healthcare capacity, supply chains, emergency communication, and public preparedness around the world.

Five years later, I’m curious what people think has meaningfully changed, especially from a long-term infrastructure and technology perspective.

If another large-scale infectious disease event occurred in the future, would society respond fundamentally differently than it did in 2020? Keep in mind, this is a 40% fatality. Compared to COVIDs 5%.

Interested in discussion around:

• hospital scalability
• air filtration and ventilation standards
• rapid diagnostics
• remote work infrastructure
• supply chain resilience
• public communication systems
• future pandemic preparedness technologies

In summary, that N95 mask sitting in the my car's glove box collecting dust, would that even be as effective today compared to what is ahead? 😅

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I was reading up on about hantavirus. One thing COVID made me realize is that disease mortality is not just about the virus itself. It is also about the condition of the population and the healthcare system it spreads through.

A lot of Americans are already dealing with obesity, diabetes, chronic illness, poor preventative care, delayed treatment, and limited healthcare access. During COVID, it felt like those underlying problems made the overall impact significantly worse.

Now we are hearing hantavirus discussed with a roughly 38 to 40 percent fatality rate, which is already extremely serious on paper.

But I’m curious how much those numbers already account for real world conditions like strained hospitals, uneven healthcare access, unhealthy populations, delayed treatment, and lack of large scale preparedness infrastructure.

In other words, is that 40 percent number already reflecting those realities, or could outcomes become even worse if a larger outbreak happened in a healthcare system that still feels fragile after COVID?

Not trying to fear monger, I’m interested in how much healthcare infrastructure and population health affect the real world severity of diseases.

In other words, if this thing really got to America, I think this would be well over 40% given how shitty our healthcare and health is.