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Alberta has 4.4 mln or so people. Colorado, with 5.8 mln people, has over 1700 ICU beds. Alberta's been 'running on fumes' re: ICU beds and they got caught ou

• smnrchrds 5y ago
  I don't think the two jurisdictions count ICU beds the same. Alberta (and Canada in general) have about half as many ICU beds per capita as the US, not 1/10th. If I had to guess, I would say the number for Colorado includes other types of ICU (neonatal, cardiac, etc.) that the Albertan number doesn't. Alberta has 8,513 acute care beds. How many of those would be counted as ICU beds per the Colorado definition, I don't know. https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/about/about.aspx https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/about/about.aspx
• PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
  Arguably, most of the world's industrial economies have been running on fumes increasingly over the last 30-40 years, as "fat has been trimmed", JIT supply chains have taken over, and "efficiency via merger-then-closure" have been common themes in national economies.