Not true here
30 COVIDs in house, all ICU CCU CVSU beds full, 5 in ER overflow
And it’s not even January yet (usual peak crunch time)
Curious - where? How many are there for other problems but happen to have a positive test result and are thus considered “covid patients”?
In Western MA the COVID beds doubled this week. ICU beds for COVID are the highest since May. All other procedures are being done as well, so capacity is creeping up.
My COVID beds are also all full, ER backed up, can’t meet transfer in demands.
There’s over 954,000 staffed hospital beds in the US.
About 90,000 are being used for COVID (Which accounts for anything else they may be in there for).
Not seeing a problem overall and yes some hospitals may have limited rooms do to their size and not to mention all those field hospitals set up and the USS Comfort that were never used except for a few beds.
It’s an overstated false fear.
At the hospital I work at in southern NJ we have 80 positive Covid cases.