Thanks for the reply. My understanding was that the terror victims were spread among many different community hospitals so as to prevent overcrowding in any one hospital. However, with a normally high occupancy ICU rate,(something I didn’t realize), I do see that even a small number of admissions can make a big difference.
I have seen reports lately of higher than normal ICU occupancy, but with no explanations given as to why. That was actually why I asked the question.
I did some searching, and found that the actual average ICU occupancy rate is just under 80%, still much higher that I would have thought.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3840149/
Hospitals don’t make money with empty beds.
I’m in Michigan now on vacation and everyone is whining about how bad the state is for covid.
Michigan has 2520 adult ICU beds. 80% capacity is 2016 beds filled on an average day. At 95%, that adds 378 people assuming they are all covid patients. Being in the hospital and in ICU is awful, but that doesn’t seem like an impossible number to treat, assuming the hospitals haven’t fired all of their staff who believes in making informed choices about what is injected into their bodies.
Now, if these hospitals have fired 10-20% of their staff over informed consent, I could easily see how they are overwhelmed. However, there’s a simple solution to that self-inflicted problem