Norwegian doctors spring into existence at the moment of need and cease to exist once the need is over.
The accounting for things like this is the same that results in saying space craft toilets cost fifty billion dollars.
In reality there is some costs associated with consumables, overtime, etc that could be avoided but it’s hard to account for the costs that would have been spent “anyway”.
Perhaps you could argue that there was care neglected in other aspects of the facility, but given the strangeness of the situation it’s likely that many involved were involved only peripherally and/or would have been doing research anyway.
The accounting for things like this is the same that results in saying space craft toilets cost fifty billion dollars.
In reality there is some costs associated with consumables, overtime, etc that could be avoided but it’s hard to account for the costs that would have been spent “anyway”.
Perhaps you could argue that there was care neglected in other aspects of the facility, but given the strangeness of the situation it’s likely that many involved were involved only peripherally and/or would have been doing research anyway.