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To: SeekAndFind
About a month ago I stated on this forum: "There are over 6,000 hospitals in the United States. You would think that there are enough hospital beds to go around."

For which I got and got roundly blasted.

I suspect that they were sending people to selected hospitals in order to make it appear as if there was COVID overcrowding.

Will the people who gave me such a hard time NOW apologize?

11 posted on 12/14/2020 10:24:30 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Slyfox

There are some shortages, but it is caused by policy. Most of SCal is under 2 bed per 1K people when the average for the country is 2.2 beds per 1K people. The same goes for Salt Lake, Utah. They were in the news awhile back for bed shortages. They are under 2 beds per 1K people, and take patients from surrounding states for specialty care.

https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/health-policy-center/projects/understanding-hospital-bed-capacities-nationwide-amid-covid-19


13 posted on 12/15/2020 2:06:32 AM PST by EVO X
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