during the winter months it’s not unusual to have a hospital at capacity for a couple of days. what is unusual is to be there for an extended period of time as we have been for the last month or so with census still climbing. The other u usual thing is every hospital know of is opening 1 if not more accessory ICUs. I will be attacked again for saying it but the system where I am is under considerable strain and we have about 100 more covid patients hospitalized today than yesterday Fortunately they tend to not be as ill as this spring and the death rate is holding fairly steady despite the rise in cases
The wife is seeing the same thing in her long term care facilities. More cases but low death rates. She has about 40 facilities in Colorado and all of them have been hit. This past Spring, she only had two that were hit. Of course, with COVID testing being highly unreliable, they’re not sure if it is covid or this upper respiratory that’s got people sick for weeks on end. I have it, and it comes and goes for about 5 weeks now.