Posted on 11/28/2020 2:29:52 PM PST by Hojczyk
Most states are around 10% a few at 20 %
California
Current: 6,254
State's hospital bed capacity: 72,511
Florida
Current: 3,754
Cumulative: 54,167
State's hospital bed capacity: 54,744
Michigan
Current: 4,047
State's hospital bed capacity: 24,949
Nevada
Current: 1,274
State's hospital bed capacity: 6,493
Connecticut
Current: 875
Cumulative: 12,257
State's hospital bed capacity: 7,194
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We are not admitting people who do not need to be admitted. I have much better things to do with my time and the hospital would not get paid if the patient does not meet admission criteria. Our beds are full there is no lack of patients that actually need hospitalization.
While you would not admit people who do not need admission, other physicians certainly have done so in the past. But the problem many of us have with these numbers arises from their confounding. For example, a patient is admitted with a non-viral diagnosis, and subsequently tests positive despite having no accompanying symptoms — yet is shown as a C-19 admission. That admission might have more discrete reporting in your hospital - but not in others. At the state level, the data seems co-mingled. The media is reporting these as though the reason for admission and subsequent bed occupation is due to Covid (and covid alone.)
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