Doctors and nurses dying is a negligible concern IMO. Yet again - there have been a few highly publicized cases of things like this, but at scale it is just not something that happens at a non-negligible frequency. I have multiple family members in the medical field. None of them report any such issues - including my sister who is a doctor working in a covid unit in Indianapolis.
I suspect that if the system gets overwhelmed, various processes will break down as they start accumulating tent cities outside the hospital and run out of equipment.
They may not die, but I'd bet a lot of them want to leave, or will have significant psychological trauma after dealing with this.
The UK NHS is recruiting at the moment, in the most visible campaign I can remember. I'm wondering if this is linked - certainly I wouldn't want to be faced with the upcoming winter in a medical role dealing with this, given what happened in March to June this year.
