The Navy hospital ship in LA was planned as a reserve for serious non-covid cases. I think because of the early statewide action we didn't need it, but better to plan reserves than to fall short.
In any large complex system, you can't necessarily predict the bottlenecks, but if you want the system to guarantee a high capacity to handle issues, you need to broadly overresrouce the initial layout (esp if the resources take time to line up). This means by definition - even a good plan will have idle resources somewhere.
In any large complex system, you can't necessarily predict the bottlenecks, but if you want the system to guarantee a high capacity to handle issues, you need to broadly overresrouce the initial layout (esp if the resources take time to line up). This means by definition - even a good plan will have idle resources somewhere.