We must preserve our capacity to treat all patients. We must increase our capacity to treat patients who are sick from severe viral illnesses. That, basically, has to impact how we think about the virus and our ability to adjust our risk tolerance. It also mostly has to do with manpower issues.
Going through it very briefly, we are desperately short on ICU nurses. We need to have some sort of program whereby we can have nurses who are able to slip into the ICU as necessary. That's very difficult, because it's highly specialized care. The alternative is to have an overabundance of ICU nurses, which is a very expensive proposition. We have to choose, though. We can't not have one or the other.
With regard to keeping our capacity, we have to recognize that low-risk procedures have to continue throughout the pandemic. We can either do those in facilities outside of the hospital, or we can recognize that the risk is quite low and just soldier on, knowing that there will be some patients who are exposed to whatever virus comes next or whatever wave comes next. We can't just stop cold anymore.
This is a very complex issue. I'm not sure that we're going to have time to dive into that right now.