Okay....once again for those of you in Rio Linda:
Hospitals scale their available beds to demand for purely economic reasons. It makes no economic sense for them to keep 25 ICU units up and running if they almost never use more than ten.
Most of them are prepared to ramp-up quickly if a situation arises. 85% capacity today could easily be 40% tomorrow after a few phone calls.
My daughter is an ICU nurse so I’ve been educated about this a bit.
blah blah blah...same fear mongering we heard in April....always on the edge of armageddeon....
Hospitals are at capacity but not necessarily with covid patients. There are a lot of open hearts and other procedures that are being done that couldn’t be because of Covid earlier in the year. So add a few extra Covid patient and voila...hospitals reach 85 per cent capacity.