#toc thinking process

Use throughput accounting to increase the output capacity of your firm

While it is more deadly than the common flu, Covid-19 is less lethal than many diseases known to man .

The disease has the potential to quickly overwhelm a country’s healthcare system and cause a severe demand-capacity asymmetry. 

SOLUTION

If we build a system that can catch every infected person in the net of testing, we can isolate the person from general population and give him or her the necessary medical care till completely cured.  This is the only approach that can achieve the twin objective of controlling the pandemic while allowing the economy to run as usual

Using The Focusing Steps Of TOC.

Goal : Maximize the healthy and recovered people in a population (and ensure rate of recovered patients is higher than rate of new infections)

1. Identify the Constraint Resource - Critical Care

2. Decide how to exploit the constraint - Ensure critical care capacity is available immediately for all patients needing it.

3. Subordinate to above decision - Ensure capacity of detection, primary quarantine is elevated when required. This will ensure number of new infection stays at lowest level (like any other disease) and consequent load on critical care is minimal