China completes emergency
coronavirus hospital in just days
by
Jackie Salo
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/2/2020 6:11:45 PM
China completed building on Sunday a massive, makeshift hospital in Wuhan that will serve as the frontline in battling the coronavirus epidemic, according to a report. Huoshenshan Hospital was built in less than two weeks to treat patients at the epicenter of the virus that has killed more than 300 people, BBC reported. The hospital, which has 1,000 beds, started construction Jan. 23 and will begin admitting patients on Monday, according to Chinese state media China Global Television Network. Around 40 million people tuned into livestreams of the construction on YouTube and Periscope, while workers rushed to complete one of two hospitals that will specialize
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/2/2020 6:27:58 PM (No. 305321)
Over here, it would take 5 years just to get the permits.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dr. Constant 2/2/2020 6:36:12 PM (No. 305326)
You have to watch what the PRC does, not what they say.
Is this the reaction of a government that thinks this is a simple new form of influenza?
I don't believe the claims of 100,000 dead in Wuhan. I don't believe 200 either, it is higher than that
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/2/2020 6:41:41 PM (No. 305328)
It won't matter much; the people who generated the disease are strangers to cleanliness, and rarely use indoor ''facilities'' nor running water afterward.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/2/2020 7:06:53 PM (No. 305334)
#3 Please don't flaunt your ignorance.
Chinese people very afraid of this disease - I know, have been sending them masks and they are very thankful.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Janylou 2/2/2020 8:14:49 PM (No. 305378)
I wouldn’t feel safe in a building put up that fast.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/2/2020 8:15:32 PM (No. 305380)
I've been watching this Johns Hopkins site devoted to the tracking of the virus. I started when there were only 1,200 known cases and 71 deaths. That was about a week ago. Look where it's at now. This thing has mutations that include HIV stems that attach to cells making it very virulent. It goes for cells in the lungs and will probably stay with a victim the rest of their life if the can even survive it. Thailand has successfully treated a very sick woman with anti-flu medication combined with HIV drugs. The USA is sending every HIV drug we can make to China to try to contain this before the spread becomes unstoppable. This might become SARS plus MERS times 10,000.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
valinva 2/2/2020 8:35:00 PM (No. 305392)
This is more like a warehouse for sick people than a hospital in the sense of the word used in the US. Not built as a permanent facility but more of a way to isolate the victims from people with other health problems.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chance_232 2/2/2020 9:37:23 PM (No. 305418)
That hospital is one mobile prefab after another. The biggest obstical would be getting all of the mobile units delivered, placed and hooked up. With a massive population, finding the labor would be relatively easy.
The didnt CONSTRUCT a hospital. They ASSEMBLED one.
Still, its an impressive feat and example # 8749534 why China should never be underestimated.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 2/2/2020 10:55:45 PM (No. 305489)
An empty building isn't "a hospital".
How about staff, equipment, drugs, sewers, power, water, heating/air conditioning and all that stuff? Bet it is just a prefab shell.....keep the rain off but not much more.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/3/2020 1:34:22 AM (No. 305602)
Would you like to be in that hospital? It's probably poorly constructed and will tip over and implode at the first big wind gust.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PChristopher 2/3/2020 1:50:08 AM (No. 305613)
In just Days? I guess that means it will collapse under it's own weight within weeks like many great Communist works. That'll take care of those pesky patients.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MattMusson 2/3/2020 6:43:26 AM (No. 305669)
How long should it take to put beds in a Concentration Camp?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JackBurton 2/3/2020 9:05:02 AM (No. 305826)
#4... The Thais (my daughter was in Bangkok for 2 years) don't like the chinese because of their uncleanliness. They'll take a dump in the changing room and sneeze without covering their mouth in any way.
But the Thais want the money, so...
Don't get me started on the 'warm bat soup.'
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JackBurton 2/3/2020 9:09:03 AM (No. 305828)
Check out the Kaiser shipyards record for turning out Liberty class ships in WW2. They got the process down to building a ship in less than 3 weeks and, in a contest, built one in 4.5 days.
The Chinese have been erecting CITIES under central planning. I'm pretty sure that the stats on this hospital construction are typical... I also think that they'll have to build 2-3 dozen more of these things.
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In the good old USA, it would take 2 weeks just to hash out whose old college roommate gets the fat contract to write draft 1 of the environmental impact statement.