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Here's "hospital stress" data for the US, showing where COVID patients are overwhelming the healthcare systems: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/

• motherzucker 5y ago
  Would be interesting to see how that data compares with other diseases. For instance heart disease, which is largely preventable and kills more people
  • greedo 5y ago
    I think altering your diet and lifestyle to prevent heart disease (assuming it's non-heritable) is harder than getting two shots to prevent COVID.
    • UnFleshedOne 5y ago
      3 shots now, Israel is preparing for 4th...
• skrbjc 5y ago
  That website is very much designed to be scary. They say that hospital admins think 30% and above of Covid patients mean "extreme", but they use 20% and above for the "extreme" red. Then below that they use % "extreme", but without close reading, you think they are talking about hospital capacity. Over the whole map it's hard to find any county with over 20% of their beds being Covid patients. The big thing is what did all of this look like before Covid? Most of the problems with capacity are due to staffing, which seems to be the real bottle-neck here.