No, not really. With trillions of dollars and 2 years there was absolutely plenty of time and resources to train more people and find new COVID-specific spaces. Nurses and PAs can be done in as little as two years with the current system, and people can be trained to handle just COVID patients much faster.
The problems are easily tractable, it's just poor leadership.
Nursing programs were already at capacity before COVID started, and doing a 2 year program is preconditioned on previous education (a 2 year AS degree in my state).
> The problems are easily tractable, it's just poor leadership.
Said by every arm chair general ever.
Do you think in World War 2 the generals sat around saying "there's no possible way we can increase the size of our air force, it takes years to train pilots and engineers". No, they didn't. They found ways to make it work, because it was a crisis. The absolute refusal by the health sector to do this in any way speaks volumes.