Transporting an intubated patient hundreds of miles to an area not experiencing an outbreak and having a hospital equipped to deal with same is not a trivial ta

Transporting an intubated patient hundreds of miles to an area not experiencing an outbreak and having a hospital equipped to deal with same is not a trivial task. Moreover, these numbers of ICU beds bandied about are meaningless. Zero, or close to, of those ICU beds are isolated (infection control).