Also, it is not “unlikely”, it is in fact pretty much the definition of the “serious cases” that they are in hospital.
Although there is anecdotal reports that some hospitals are sending people home with oxygen, if they don’t need an active ventilator, and then sending people to check on them. I don’t know if I believe that, because I still think the issue in hospitals is number of ICU beds, not total beds, so I would think that a person on oxygen should have a bed in the hospital.
Virginia is currently at 83 hospitalizations. We have almost 2000 ICU beds, but staff for only about 1750. we have 18,500 “licensed” beds — which is part of the problem, many states require a license to open a hospital bed, and have heavily restricted them. Hospitals who could easily have added a floor with generic bed space didn’t do so because they could not get licenses for them.
But clearly at this point, we are nowhere near hitting our capacity, and we’ve already built a COVID facility in the mary washington hospital parking garage in Fredericksburg, so the available beds have increased, and every hospital is adding beds where they can, including converting some operating rooms since we banned elective surgeries.
You know, each abortion clinic has at least one room that would work as an ICU, complete with ventilators and other equipment, if they would just ban elective abortions.
Not that down with abortions but abortions don’t require anesthesia, or an anesthesiologist.
Did VA do that all based on that faulty Imperial College forecast?