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Unfortunately, there is absolutely a lack of beds. Someone I know was in emergency last week (totally unrelated to pandemic) and had to wait an entire day befo

Unfortunately, there is absolutely a lack of beds. Someone I know was in emergency last week (totally unrelated to pandemic) and had to wait an entire day before actually being properly admitted to a ward because there were no beds available for them. So they layed in an emergency room "booth"[0] for close to 24 hours, until a bed became available. There are lots of news articles about the lack of beds/capacity all over the place [1][2][3] [0] I don't know the right word for it, but a small room usually used for short-term (<few hours) evaluation of a patient before passing them along to the next phase, like admitting to a ward or sending them home or etc. [1] https://vancouversun.com/news/covid-19-kelowna-general-hospital-swamped-some-surgeries-being-rescheduled https://vancouversun.com/news/covid-19-kelowna-general-hospi... [2] https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/oregon-emergency-rooms-backed-up/283-df49a066-b701-4c95-aaf8-f1e7c20897bc https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/oregon-e... [3] https://richmond.com/news/national/with-no-beds-hospitals-ship-patients-to-far-off-cities/article_3740dbac-a1d2-5e97-8b05-79a7883026bc.html https://richmond.com/news/national/with-no-beds-hospitals-sh...

Negitivefrags 5y ago
When you are told there is a lack of beds, it really doesn't have to mean a lack of physical beds. A bed that isn't staffed with a nurse is no more useful then laying in your bed at home.
- amatecha 5y ago
  Yeah, people keep responding to this, so I'll reply.. Yeah, the beds are literally full, at least in the hospital I was in. People on beds in the hallways and stuff. It's not a staffing shortage or anything like that.
dunco 5y ago
"beds" and capacity can be synonymous in casual medical conversation. If the staff had plenty of literal beds, but no staff for them, they might still tell you that they had no beds, because they are just saying they don't have the capacity.
- JamesBarney 5y ago
  Like when a restaurant tells you they don't have any available tables, when you can clearly see empty tables.

Negitivefrags 5y ago

When you are told there is a lack of beds, it really doesn't have to mean a lack of physical beds. A bed that isn't staffed with a nurse is no more useful then laying in your bed at home.

amatecha 5y ago
Yeah, people keep responding to this, so I'll reply.. Yeah, the beds are literally full, at least in the hospital I was in. People on beds in the hallways and stuff. It's not a staffing shortage or anything like that.

dunco 5y ago

"beds" and capacity can be synonymous in casual medical conversation. If the staff had plenty of literal beds, but no staff for them, they might still tell you that they had no beds, because they are just saying they don't have the capacity.

JamesBarney 5y ago
Like when a restaurant tells you they don't have any available tables, when you can clearly see empty tables.