There was some Texas citizen on ABC evening news last night pleading for an ICU bed because according to him, there was not a single ICU bed available in the entire state of Texas.
Well, according to this account, they’re sending COVID cases to the ICU that are mild enough to be treated on a normal inpatient basis, presumably either because it results in a higher reimbursement or because they want to say the ICUs are full of COVID patients, or both.