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Nothing in this article actually suggestions COVID is that bad (100% full before first case). It actually suggests there were way too few ICU beds going into this at this hospital.

Nothing in this article actually suggestions COVID is that bad (100% full before first case). It actually suggests there were way too few ICU beds going into this at this hospital.

Except that they NEED ICU beds to treat a known percentage of COVID patients. In other words, there is a certain percentage who become critically (in danger of losing their lives) ill. And this percentage is high enough that if nothing is done they will overwhelm the medical system.

Yup.

More and more stories coming out about all over the usa, they have deliberately been light on hospitals.

Part of it is the infighting between different hospital systems, in terms of ‘turf wars’, and trying to act like cable companies do in an area.

I actually suspect that while treatment can help, being an a hospital with other patients with infectious diseases can be worse than if they were treated out in the parking lot, if warm.

https://medium.com/@ra.hobday/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-lesson-from-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-509151dc8065 Coronavirus and the Sun: a Lesson from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic . Put simply, medics found that severely ill flu patients nursed outdoors recovered better than those treated indoors. A combination of fresh air and sunlight seems to have prevented deaths among patients; and infections among medical staff. `Open-Air’ Treatment in 1918 During the great pandemic, two of the worst places to be were military barracks and troop-ships. Overcrowding and bad ventilation put soldiers and sailors at high risk of catching influenza and the other infections that often followed it.[2,3] As with the current Covid-19 outbreak, most of the victims of so-called `Spanish flu’ did not die from influenza: they died of pneumonia and other complications.