at my hospital we do have some ICU beds available...my whole floor has been dedicated to accepting positive covid or presumptive, meaning we have many many beds available....we have several cases of a different virus...human pneumovirus...which can be deadly as well....I saw this today...if a patient with symptoms comes in, and they do a quick flu swab and if its negative, they automatically say its covid.......no kidding...they did this with Swine flu too....
My wife is a retired nurse. She worked mostly at multilevel care facilities, but also did a lot of agency work during the 80s and 90s meaning she went to a lot of places that had suffered some type of crisis and helped to clean them out. During a bad flu season it was not uncommon for skilled care facilities to lose a lot of patients, sometimes peaking at a dozen or more in a day. The Life Care Center in Kirkland which we were very familiar with was one of the best places in the area. They offered a level of care that was higher than many hospitals.