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Originally Posted by PilotMan

Lol, those numbers are such total bullshit. It's humorous to even consider that they're realistic.

Okay, maybe not 6 days, how about 10?

How China Built Two Coronavirus Hospitals in Just Over a Week - WSJ

China on Thursday completed the second of two new hospitals in Wuhan, the city at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak, in a matter of days to help combat the fast-spreading virus.

The outbreak is straining the resources of Wuhan’s front-line hospital staff, who have been forced to turn patients away because of a lack of beds and basic supplies.

The 1,000-bed Huoshenshan facility, on which construction began Jan. 23, received its first patients Monday. The 1,600-bed Leishenshan Hospital, which broke ground Jan. 25, was finished Thursday, according to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency. It was less than two weeks ago that plans for the hospitals’ construction were first announced.

The new hospitals add capacity to a city straining to keep up with the growing number of patients. In addition to the two new facilities, officials are converting gymnasiums, exhibition centers and sports centers into temporary hospitals.

“It’s impressive what’s been achieved in a very short number of days in China and represents remarkable efforts not only in public health, but in logistics and in planning and architecture,” Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s health emergencies program, said Wednesday about the two new hospitals.

How China managed to build an entirely new hospital in 10 days - Business Insider

On Sunday, China finished building an emergency hospital set up specifically to tackle the Wuhan coronavirus. It only took 10 days.

The 645,000-square-foot makeshift medical facility, which took in its first patients on Tuesday, is made up of two floors and is already equipped with 1,000 beds, several isolation wards, and 30 intensive care units.

Pictures of the construction first emerged on January 23 on social media, showing dozens of bulldozers and excavators rushing to level the ground.

In the days that followed, an online live stream was set up for people to follow the construction progress.

Okay, maybe not 100% functional or staffed but operational in 10 days and still pretty damn impressive, better than anything we could do with our bureaucracy.