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If I may ask - can you tell me which city's hospital beds are full due to Covid 19 patients?
by DiffEq 5y ago
If I may ask - can you tell me which city's hospital beds are full due to Covid 19 patients?
- probably_wrong 5y agoRight now? In the USA? "Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Florida and Arkansas have less than 10% left of their ICU bed capacity, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services. (...) Idaho had just four ICU beds available out of the 400 beds total in the state, Gov. Brad Little said." https://www.wktv.com/content/news/These-5-states-have-less-than-10-of-ICU-beds-left-as-COVID-19-overwhelms-hospitals-575222991.html https://www.wktv.com/content/news/These-5-states-have-less-t...
- DiffEq 5y agoI asked for FULL hospitals. There are none apparently. 97% is concerning but not full and that is what these beds are for...looks like everything is fine. I also think it is interesting how I get voted down for just asking the question.
- probably_wrong 5y agoPer my comment, there are exactly 4 free ICU beds in all of Idaho. If there are more than 4 hospitals in Idaho (Wikipedia lists ~30), all hospitals after the 5th are therefore full.
- DiffEq 5y agoSo these are due to staff shortages. I don't live there now but I use to live in that region and this occurred from time to time...because the hospitals are small and the staff are few...it was normal procedure to fly patients out of state for care. These headlines are misleading because it does not put the issue into context. This is why the National Guard is being considered...because of staff. One reason why there are fewer staff these days is because people are tired of this crap and also may get paid more to sit at home.