Some problems interpreting that data...
1) Hospitals tend to like high utilization rates since empty beds cost money. So how much of high use is due to WuFlu and how much is just with patients who have WuFlu and are in for additional/other reasons.
2) Meanwhile, most states do not have their ICU capacity maxed out. If statewide ICU and ventilator useage isn't near peak, and in most states it ain't, I don't see a crisis.
And I'll just throw this last one in cuz it torques me off...
Try getting the Ct info from your state, local public officials and labs. I hope you have better luck than I've had.
“f you go to each state’s health department website and look at hospital utilization rates”
You posted to a petulant child. She’ll never read anything to learn and discern.
is it real? yes. do people get sick? yes. do people die? yes.
but it is without a doubt exaggerated, overhyped and being exploited. one of the indications of this is the various state, local, DOH websites. months ago all the stats were right there on a homepage dashboard. sub-divided, sorted, categorized, sliced & diced in every/any conceivable way.
now you need to search for the numbers you want. just before labor day I looked up numbers for my county/area. assuming no false positives, every “case” was flat-on-their-back sick and every death was FROM covid and nothing but covid the numbers showed 99.6% of the population didn’t get sick and 99.94% didn’t die.
of course there were false positives (and I’ve read several accouns/descriptions regarding hypersensitive testing methods), of course some people thought they had nothing more than a nasty cold. and of course some deaths were WITH covid and not from covid. so these survival rates are even better.
and....at the time the numbers showed 2/3 of the deaths were people over 70 years old.
also at the time the number of people tested was approaching 90% of the population. I looked for that (county) number this morning and can’t find it. the NYS numbers showed 87% of the population tested. unless some were tested twice. or three times. is a positive test each time counted as 3 cases? I’d bet yes. what will it mean when the % of those tested exceeds 100%? that people are being tested multiple times and multiple positives are probably counted.
the county numbers did show an 3-fold increase in “cases” (there’s that word again) in the last 3 months and only 23 additional deaths. so in the last 3 months 23 people out of 9,000 have died.
again, assuming all FROM covid, a staggering 0.25% death rate