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How does that square with a system that has the most critical care beds per capita: https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-CO

How does that square with a system that has the most critical care beds per capita: https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-COVID-19 https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Avai...

rblatz 7y ago
Interesting, the last number I saw was 10x less. That is comforting
chmod775 7y ago
Second most at best. Turkey has 46 / 100k. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospital_beds#Numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospital_...
bildung 7y ago
As user lima-lima pointed out above, this most probably is an artifact resulting from different definitions of what constitutes an ICU bed - for example pediatric and neoanatal beds are included for the US, but excluded in the European numbers. It also fails the sniff test: The US has less total hospital beds than almost every other industrial nation, but at the same time the most ICU beds?
- malandrew 7y ago
  It only has less total beds if you exclude outpatient facility beds.
  - bildung 7y ago
    Are these included in the count of the other countries? This is exactly what I mean: Without the same definitions for all countries, the numbers per se are not really comparable.