Sorry, didn’t think the /s tag was necessary.
Everyone keeps going on about how busy ICU floors are like 95% capacity is an unusual thing. How do you think hospitals make money? It’s by having beds full. I’ve read that 90-95% is their goal.
Waukesha hospital is full from terrorist attack victims, but someone will undoubtedly conflate that to being covid related because one of the ten ICU beds has a covid patient. (yes, I just made than number up)
I looked at covid death by age number recently. 52% of 2021 fatalities are people over the average American lifespan.
Besides accidents, I’d think that majority of people in the hospital normally are older to elderly.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/
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/