@RobEslinger This is true but it's more varied by state and there have been times when individual states came close to or did run out of icu beds
@RobEslinger No I'm pretty sure I was reading all icu beds. I think the only state where it got full in the past few months was rhode island
@valleyforge maybe, but you have to look deeper, they like to say all beds are full but it’s really the beds set aside for COVID. Also it’s cold and flu season, the hospital are normally full
@valleyforge
this is the kinda thing I was talking about
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/12/18/what-public-health-leaders-mean-by-0-icu-beds-available/amp/
@RobEslinger
This is some bs right here. Now I feel lied to.
"If more than 30% of ICU beds are in use by COVID-19 patients in a county, or the region as a whole, it’s reported available ICU capacity is reduced by half a percentage point for each percentage point over that threshold.
For example, 9.2% of Orange County’s staffed adult ICU beds were available by Friday, Dec. 18, according to the OC Health Care Agency. But because 57% of the county’s 628 active ICU beds were taken by coronavirus patients – well above the state’s 30% limit – Orange County’s capacity was downgraded to 0%."
@valleyforge no agenda podcast, they cover this kinda stuff all the time.
And yes, you’re being lied to
@valleyforge when they say that they mean ICU beds reserved for COVID patients. The truth is even in NY, as bad as it was in the spring, they never got overrun.
All the predictions never came close, including the thanksgiving spike