Why not produce more critical care resources?

By Letter to the Editor on May 5, 2021.

Editor:Re: Deena Hinshaw’s Covid-19 Triage Protocol, as reported in the Lethbridge Herald, April 30, 2021.
Deena Hinshaw and Alberta Health Services have rolled out their COVID-19 triage protocol that, if implemented, would prioritize patients for care who are most likely to live.
If Deena Hinshaw and AHS think that at some point there may be a shortage of critical care resources for everyone, why not start trying to produce more resources now?
For example, if at some point if there may be a shortage of ventilators, why not begin making some more now? And why not get manufacturing factories in our own province to do this, so that the ventilators don’t have to be exported from somewhere else?
As well, why isn’t Hinshaw talking about early outpatient COVID-19 treatments being used in other countries which have been shown to be highly effective in preventing the Coronavirus from resulting in critical illness and hospitalizations? This would help prevent hospitals from being “overwhelmed.”
Early outpatient treatment is discussed in one of the 10 most read COVID-19 articles in 2021 accessed by physicians on ClinicalKey (see: “Top ten most-read COVID-19 articles in 2021, identified by the editors at Elsevier” on the Canadian Medical Association’s website): “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection,” authored by Peter A. McCullough, and seventeen additional specialists affiliated with Yale University School of Public Health, Baylor University Medical School, John Hopkins School of Medicine, and others, and published in The American Journal of Medicine, January, 2021.
As the principal contributor of this article has said regarding the numbers of cases of COVID-19 and deaths, “it is no longer tenable in any country to withhold early ambulatory treatment in favour of late-stage hospitalization, complications, and death.”
Maureen Remus
Coaldale